Guide to Atlanta, Georgia
This guide identifies manuscript collections that are related to Atlanta history. The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) has been fortunate to be able to collect and preserve primary sources spanning the city’s history, including those of Atlanta’s pioneers as well as those of its current citizens. Represented among our holdings are many of Atlanta’s notable authors, journalists, politicians, business leaders, educators, social activists, community organizations, and families.
The following entries are intended as a guide to this division’s manuscript resources on Atlanta and her citizens. It includes collections which relate to Atlanta in some way, or concern persons known to be associated with the city. Please refer to the Civil War subject guide for collections related to any aspect of Atlanta during the Civil War. Please contact the University Archives for information concerning the history of Emory University.
This guide is not intended to be a complete finding aid to the collections. It serves as a preliminary research tool, providing a brief description of holdings with basic information on size, inclusive dates, types of records, and broad subject areas. More detailed descriptions of the sources listed below are available in the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) and through EUCLID, the Emory Libraries’ online catalog. EUCLID contains bibliographic records for the majority of the manuscript collections held in MARBL as well as books and other printed material available at Emory University. EUCLID is accessible through the Internet at http://www.library.emory.edu. Finding aids for these sources are also available through MARBL's Web site in the finding aids database.
Please note that not all manuscript collections are housed in MARBL. Some collections are located at an off-site storage facility and must be requested in advance. In addition, some collections have access restrictions. Researchers are encouraged to contact MARBL to insure that materials will be available. We are also happy to pull materials in advance of a research visit.
ABRAM, MORRIS B. (MSS 514)
Papers, 1954-1986; 96 linear ft. (96 boxes)
Abram (1918-2000), a Georgia native, served as an educator, lawyer, statesman, president of Brandeis University and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations European office. This collection documents his career, particularly his work on human and civil rights. It also includes material relating to Abram's unsuccessful candidacy in the Georgia 5th District Congressional race in 1954.
ADAMS, JULIA (MSS 136)
Scrapbooks, 1926-1942; 1 reel microfilm
Adams, a writer for the Eatonton Messenger, collected materials about Georgia history. Many clippings in her scrapbooks were taken from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.
ALLEN, FREDERICK (MSS 850)
Papers, 16 linear ft. (16 boxes)
Frederick Allen (1948- ), journalist and author. Allen is a former political commentator for CNN and columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. His books include Secret Formula and Atlanta Rising: The Invention of an International City, 1946-1996. The collection consists of materials relating to Frederick Allen’s book, Secret Formula. The materials include manuscript and typescript drafts, research materials and notes, reviews and publicity materials, and printed material relating to the history of the Coca-Cola Company.
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE, ATLANTA CHAPTER.
ATLANTA ORAL HISTORY PROJECT (MSS 596)
Records, 1976-1983; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
This project was instituted to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the American Jewish Committee. Its purpose was to preserve the history of the Jewish community in Atlanta. Many tapes include recollections of prominent Atlanta Jews about the history of Atlanta and their place in it.
Note: Copies of the tapes are also held by the American Jewish Committee's Werner Oral History Library in New York.
Restrictions: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
ANDREWS, VIOLA P. (MSS 813)
Family papers, 1957-1998; 12.5 linear ft. (23 boxes and 2 oversized papers)
Viola P. Andrews (1912-2006), an African American writer, columnist and Sunday School teacher, moved from rural Morgan County, Georgia to Atlanta in the early 1950s. The collection consists of the papers of the Viola P. Andrews family from 1957-1998 and includes writings, correspondence, photographs, religious material, scrapbooks and other miscellaneous papers. The correspondence focuses upon family events and business, although they occasionally include reactions to current events.
ARRINGTON, MARVIN S. (MSS 714)
Papers, 1986-1994; 6 linear ft. (15 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 1 oral history)
Arrington, an Atlanta city council member, is a 1969 alumnus of Emory law school. The collection includes correspondence about the city council, civic affairs, revitalization of the Auburn Avenue area, other political and civil rights issues, and printed materials both by and about Arrington.
ATLANTA. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS (MSS 169)
Records, 1909-1945; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
The collection contains correspondence , reports, blueprints and plans, and clippings relating to a proposed plaza in downtown Atlanta. Also includes photographs of downtown Atlanta (Pryor St./Central Ave. area) ca. 1928.
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD (MSS 1023)
Photograph collection, [ca. 1970s-2001]; 94 linear ft.
Photographs accumulated by the Atlanta Daily World, an African American newspaper in Atlanta, Georgia.
ATLANTA FILM COUNCIL (MSS 488)
Records, 1947-1952; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
The Atlanta Film Council was affiliated with the Film Council of America and was committed to increasing information about and promoting more effective use of audiovisual materials. The collection includes correspondence, program announcements, membership and committee lists, reports of meetings, and a copy of the council’s constitution. Also includes records of the Audio and Visual Education Workshop sponsored jointly by Emory University and the Atlanta Film Council, 1949.
ATLANTA MISCELLANY (MSS 572)
Collection, ca. 1845- ; .75 linear ft. (2 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
This is an artificial collection consisting of single items or small groups of manuscripts having some connection to Atlanta, either: created in Atlanta, concerning Atlanta, or by, to, or about Atlantans.
ATLANTA (GA.) POLITICAL ORAL HISTORY (MSS 824)
Collection, 1997-1998; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
The collection consists of oral history interviews conducted in 1997-1998 of individuals discussing the history of Atlanta, Georgia. Interviewees include Angelo Fuster, David Gambrell, Leroy Johnson, Michael Lomax, Ruth Scott Simmons, and Herman and Tyler Talmadge.
AVARY, ROBERT LEE (MSS 460)
Papers, 1895-1947; 2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Avary (b. 1863) was a lawyer who served as a professor of medical jurisprudence at Georgia Medical College and as a professor of law at Atlanta law school. He also served as the president of the Emory University Alumni Association. The collection includes correspondence and materials relating to the Emory Alumni Association (1895-1942), Atlanta Medical College, the beginning of the County Unit System (1942), and the First Methodist Episopal Church, South, of Atlanta. The collection also includes correspondence, business papers, and miscellaneous legal papers of Atlanta city court judge Howard Vann Epps (1896-1917).
BARKER, MARY CORNELIA (MSS 528)
Papers, 1912-1971; 6.5 linear ft. (13 boxes)
Barker (1879-1963) was a public school teacher who was active in the labor movement, president of the American Federation of Teachers (1925-1931), and an organizer of the Southern Summer School for Women Workers. The collection includes correspondence, organizational records, printed matter, notes, and clippings relating to the above organizations as well as the Atlanta Public School Teachers’ Association, the Atlanta Forum Association, the Atlanta Teachers’ Union, the Atlanta Urban League, and other educational, inter-racial, and labor groups. Also included are a scrapbook and clippings regarding the Atlanta Public Schools (1915-1944), Atlanta Public School directories (1922-1944), as well as papers pertaining to Miss Barker’s sister, Tommie Dora Barker, an Atlanta librarian and library educator.
BARNETT, SAMUEL (MSS 505)
Papers, 1909-1932; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Barnett (1850-1943) was an Atlanta lawyer who specialized in insurance and corporation law. The collection contains correspondence (including letters from Charles Sanders Peirce, Arthur Kenyon Rogers and John Dewey) and the literary manuscript of Barnett’s unpublished book on "Probability." The collection also includes some biographical data on Barnett.
BATTEY, ROBERT (MSS 361)
Papers, 1810-1894; .75 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Battey (1828-1895) was a physician from Rome, Ga., who specialized in gynecology and obstetrics. He served as a surgeon in an Atlanta hospital during the Civil War and returned to Atlanta in 1873 as a professor of obstetrics in the Atlanta Medical College. The collection contains letters and miscellaneous family papers of Battey and covers such subjects as slavery, social conditions, and Reconstruction in Georgia, as well as medical studies and practice.
BAXTER, JAMES HAMILTON (MSS 64)
Papers, ca. 1876-1889; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Baxter (1848-1891) was a Methodist minister who served as an elder in the Northern Georgia Conference and held pastorates in and around Atlanta, 1869-1890. The collection includes sermons, sermon notes and fragments, and miscellaneous material.
BELL, WILLIAM AUGUSTUS (MSS 888)
Diaries, 1910, 1932; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
William Augustus Bell (b. 1882) was a prominent businessman in Atlanta. The collection consists of two diaries for the years 1910 and 1932. The 1932 diary includes entries which discuss daily and social life in Atlanta.
BOMAR FAMILY (MSS 86)
Papers, 1862-1870; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
The collection consists of the family papers of Benjamin F. Bomar, pioneer Atlanta citizen elected mayor in 1849. The collection includes the letters of Amaryllis Bomar, daughter of Benjamin, which describe Atlanta during the Civil War. One letter is from a Confederate soldier friend of the Bomars and describes the evacuation of Atlanta and the military situation in North Georgia.
BOOZER, JACK STEWART (MSS 685)
Papers, 1950-1989; 56.5 linear ft. (57 boxes)
Boozer (1918-1989) was an Emory professor of religion, author, lecturer, and activist in civic and social movements. His local interests encompassed the Presidential (now Freedom) Parkway and CAUTION, Olmsted Parks, and the Druid Hills Civic Association. In addition, he was involved in many issues at Emory University. Correspondence and administrative and printed materials reflect in part his involvement with the Druid Hills Civic Association.
BRADLEY, FRANCES SAGE (MSS 473)
Papers, 1893-1965; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes , 2 oversized papers, 2 medals)
Bradley (1866-1949) worked as a physician in Atlanta between 1899 and 1914. In 1914 she began work with the United States Children’s Bureau and served as doctor and health educator to mothers and children in the rural sections of the southern and western United States. Bradley's papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts of Bradley's short stories and an unpublished autobiography; also includes photographs, clippings, and mementos. The collection also contains sketches and miscellaneous materials of her husband, Horace James Bradley, an artist who was chief of the Fine Arts Department of the Cotton States International Exposition, held in Atlanta in 1895.
BRADLEY, PANKE M. (MSS 566)
Papers, ca. 1970-1977; 8 linear ft. (8 boxes)
Bradley was the first woman to serve on Atlanta’s Board of Aldermen, 1971-1973; she also served as a member of Atlanta City Council. The collection contains primarily files relating to Bradley’s service on the Atlanta City Council, as well as some personal and campaign materials. Papers relate to various aspects of city government, particularly to transportation, housing, zoning, and law enforcement.
BRICE, RICHARD THEOBALD (MSS 567)
Papers, ca. 1930-1970; 4.5 linear ft. (10 boxes)
The collection (1910-) includes family correspondence, World War II letters written by Brice from the Pacific, and memorabilia from his student days at Boys High School (Atlanta) and Emory University.
BROTHERTON, WILLIAM H. (MSS 278)
Papers, 1862-1908; .25 linear ft. (1 box , 1 oversized bound volume, 1 reel microfilm)
Brotherton (1839-1908) served as an Atlanta City Councilman in 1869, 1873, 1882 and 1883 and on the Board of Police Commissioners for seventeen years, many times as chairman. The collection consists of 36 Civil War letters and other items, including a deed to a lot in Atlanta. A scrapbook contains clippings from Atlanta newspapers from 22 Jun 1890 to 4 Mar 1908 and is concerned with the political career of Brotherton, particularly with the affairs of the Atlanta police commission.
BROWN, JOSEPH E. (JOSEPH EMERSON) (MSS 16)
Papers, 1853-1928; .25 linear ft. (1 box, 2 reels microfilm)
Brown (1821-1894) was the governor of Georgia from 1857-1865 and U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1880-1891. The collection includes original court appointment documents of the Confederate period as well as copies of family correspondence. The letters are largely personal but do refer to Brown's campaign for governor, his war activities, and his railroad and other business activities, as well as to several well-known persons of the period.
BROWN, JOSEPH M. (MSS 107)
Papers, 1891-1925; .13 linear ft. (1 box, 17 bound volumes)
Brown (1851-1932) was the governor of Georgia (1909-1913) and the traffic manager of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. The collection includes Brown's letterbooks from his tenure at the Western & Atlantic Railroad (1891-1898). These letters deal primarily with railroad business, but also discuss Brown's personal affairs. Unbound material consists of several letters, speeches, including the 1913 “Governor’s Message to the General Assembly of Georgia,” a clipping, and materials relating to Brown’s inclusion in Men of Mark in Georgia.
BRYAN, SHEPARD (MSS 698)
Papers, 1750-1984; 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes, 3 oversized papers, 1 oversized bound volume)
Bryan (1871-1970) was a lawyer in the firm of Bryan, Carter, Ansley and Smith and a judge of the Superior Court, Atlanta Circuit. He was active in the Bar Association. His civic works included membership on the Atlanta Board of Education, and the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce as well as many charitable organizations. The collection includes writings, speeches, correspondence (both personal and professional), minutes, genealogical information, scrapbooks and photographs.
BRYAN, WILLIAM LYLE (MSS 148)
Papers, 1908-1960; .13 linear ft. (1 box)
Bryan (1890-1960) was an Atlanta insurance executive and Emory alumnus. The collection contains letters written by Bryan to his parents while a student at Emory College (Oxford, Ga.), 1908-1911. Bryan's Emory alumni file is also included in the collection, and contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, and biographical data.
BULLARD, HELEN (MSS 599)
Papers, 1920-1979; 12.5 linear ft. (25 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
Helen Elizabeth Bullard (1908-1979) was a political advisor and public relations consultant. She was involved in many civic projects, and directed approximately 165 political campaigns, including those of mayors William B. Hartsfield, Ivan Allen, Jr., and Sam Massell, Congressman Wyche Fowler, and Senator Walter F. George. The papers contain general correspondence, subject files, writings, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports, photographs, and other items.
BURKE, JOSEPH FRANCIS (MSS 251)
Papers, 1832-1929; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Burke (1845-1927) was an Atlanta businessman and commander of the Gate City Guard, (1879-1914). The collection consists primarily of business and legal papers relating to the property (233 Peachtree St.) of Marie E. Bullock, wife of governor Rufus Bullock of Ga. There is some correspondence, including letters of the Bullocks and one autograph letter of Jefferson Davis. The collection also contains the papers of Burke’s father-in-law, D. G. Cotting, Georgia secretary of state (1868), and included among these papers are letters from Alexander Stephens.
CAMPBELL, HENRY S. (MSS 378)
Papers, 1817-1864; .25 linear ft. (1 box, 1 reel microfilm)
The collection of this Gainesville, Ga. family includes letters of Warren H. Campbell, an Atlanta bookkeeper, which describe the situation in Atlanta just before the Civil War.
CANDLER, ASA GRIGGS (MSS 1)
Papers, 1821-1951; 7 linear ft. (22 boxes, 7 bound volumes, 4 oversized papers)
Candler (1851-1929) was an Atlanta businessman and philanthropist, the founder of the Coca-Cola Company, mayor of Atlanta, 1917-1918, and benefactor of Emory University.
The collection contains business papers relating to Candler’s various business and real estate ventures including materials regarding Coca-Cola Company, Emory University, Ansley Hotel, Forsyth Building, and other properties and corporations in Atlanta in which Candler had an interest. The collection also contains material relating to the land development of Druid Hills, including the original land grant, 1821; Druid Hills Corporation Records, 1908-1913; and the original plan of Druid Hills, 1905; along with other plans, deeds, charters, and contracts. The collection includes some family correspondence, speeches, photographs, and clippings.
CANDLER, CHARLES HOWARD (MSS 3)
Papers, 1880-1959; 8 linear ft. (17 boxes, 3 oversized papers, 2 bound volumes)
Charles Candler (1878-1957), son of Asa Candler, was an Atlanta businessman and civic leader, the president of the Coca-Cola Company, president of Asa G. Candler, Inc., director of Trust Company Bank, and chairman of the Board of Trustees, Emory University. The collection includes correspondence, programs, brochures, and clippings regarding the Metropolitan Opera’s tour season in Atlanta, as well as drafts, notes, letters, and clippings regarding Candler’s biography of his father. The collection includes some personal correspondence as well as biographical material, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia.
CANDLER, WALTER TURNER (MSS 68)
Papers, 1923-1967; .5 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Candler (1885-1967), son of Asa Candler, was an Atlanta businessman, sportsman, and philanthropist. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, and photographs, as well as some biographical information and materials relating to the Lullwater house and estate, horse racing, and the Walter T. Candler lecture series at Emory University.
CANDLER, WARREN A. (WARREN AKIN) (MSS 2)
Papers, 1846-1977; 33.25 linear ft. (129 boxes, 2 bound volumes, 1 oversized bound volume, 2 oversized papers)
Warren Akin Candler (1857-1941), a bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was the president of Emory University who was instrumental in moving Emory to Atlanta from Oxford, Ga. in 1914. The collection includes correspondence, sermons, articles, reports, clippings, and photographs, relating to his association with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Emory College and Emory University as well as other political, social, and personal concerns. Principal subjects covered include Methodist missions in Cuba, the establishment of the Wesley Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, the controversy concerning Vanderbilt University and the church, Methodist unification, the founding of Emory University and its further development. Also included are the manuscripts of Candler’s biographies of Young John Allen and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway.
CANDLER FAMILY (MSS 4)
Collection, 1875-1974; 1.75 linear ft. (5 boxes, 3 bound volume, 1 oversized bound volume)
This collection contains papers of members of this prominent Atlanta family, with the exclusion of Asa Griggs Candler, Charles Howard Candler, Walter T. Candler, and Warren Akin Candler, for whom there are separate collections. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, and other materials. The bulk of the material relates to Milton Asa Candler, Asa Warren Candler, Samuel Charles Candler, John Slaughter Candler, Florence Candler Harris, and Frances G. Candler. Genealogical material is included as well as biographical cards for numerous members of the Candler family.
CARMICHAEL, JAMES VINSON (MSS 576)
Papers, 1913-1982; 42.5 linear ft. (88 boxes, 71 oversized papers, 4 bound volumes, 24 oversized bound volumes, 1 oral history)
Carmichael (1910-1972), a Marietta resident, served as the president of Scripto, Inc. (1947-1964), as general manager of the Georgia Division of Lockheed Aircraft Corporation (1951-1952), and as a member of the Georgia legislature (1936-1940). He also ran for the governorship in 1946 and was active in Atlanta civic and social organizations. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, legal documents, financial documents, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia regarding Carmichael’s business and political careers, his service on various committees and advisory councils, as well as some personal and family material. The collection also includes material on the Atlanta Art School and the Atlanta Arts Alliance.
CAUTION, INC. (ATLANTA, GA) (MSS763)
Records, 1982-1986; 73 linear ft. (73 boxes, 26 oversized papers, 2 groupings of broadsides)
This collection holds materials related to CAUTION, Inc.'s fight against the Great Park and Freedom Parkway concept. Contains mainly legal documents, but also includes correspondence, traffic observation photos, diagrams, maps, and drawings.
Restrictions: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
CHANEY, GEORGE LEONARD (MSS 639)
Papers, 1856-1908; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Chaney (1836-1922) was a Unitarian Church leader during the Civil War, and later pastored a church in Atlanta. The collection includes records, music programs, broadsides and photographs.
CHERRY, JIM D. (MSS 655)
Papers, 1947-1988; 11 linear ft. (11 boxes, 13 oversized bound volumes)
Jim D. Cherry (d. 1980) was superintendent of the DeKalb Co. (Ga.) schools from 1947-1972, presiding over the system during the desegregation process. Cherry was also instrumental in developing the Fernbank Science Center. The papers document Cherry's career, civic activities and his interest in education generally. The papers also contain interviews with Carl Sanders and Ellis Arnall as well as correspondence, financial records, speeches, writings, printed materials, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia.
Note: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
CHILDS, PEGGY (MSS 588)
Legislative Papers, 1974-1977; 6.5 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Peggy Childs (1939-1987) was a DeKalb political activist and 12 year member of the Georgia General Assembly. The collection, relating primarily to her work in the assembly, includes correspondence, minutes, reports, and special interest files including MARTA and the airport.
COCA-COLA COMPANY (MSS 620)
Collection, 1912-1990; 5.75 linear ft. (13 boxes, 3 oversized papers)
The company began in 1886, was acquired by Asa Griggs Candler in 1891, and sold to Ernest Woodruff and a group of investors in 1919. In the 1960s, Coca-Cola diversified into other food and non-food items. Materials in the collection include company publications (annual stock reports), articles, clippings, magazines, and photographs pertaining to the establishment, advertising, and personnel of the Coca-Cola Company itself and its related bottling companies.
COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF THE ATLANTA AREA (MSS 570)
Records, 1960-1974; 28 linear ft. (28 boxes)
The Community Council of the Atlanta Area, Inc., formed on 12 May 1960 and disbanded ca. 1974, was a social planning agency providing technical assistance and information to various independent agencies and governmental bodies for the formulation and organization of services and programs. Records include minutes, reports, correspondence, administrative and topical files from the offices of the Community Council. Papers relate to the council’s work with poverty, drug abuse, daycare, health, recreation, employment, housing, aging, and social legislation in the Atlanta area.
COOPER, AUGUSTA SKEEN (MSS535)
Papers, 1925-1970; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes, 1 oversized bound volume)
Cooper was a chemistry instructor at Emory University, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fernbank Science Center and Atlanta World Service Committee. The collection contains personal correspondence as well as correspondence relating to Emory and Fernbank. It also includes memorabilia such as plaques, certificates, diplomas, photographs and Agnes Scott College yearbooks (1914-1917).
COOPER, SAMUEL INMAN (MSS 546)
Papers, 1950-1970; 7 linear ft. (13 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Cooper (1894-1974) was a prominent Atlanta architect. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, photographs, plans, clippings, and memorabilia relating to Cooper’s architectural concerns and civic life. There is material on buildings and houses designed by Cooper, the American Institute of Architects, and the Pan American Federation of Architects. Also included are plans and interior photographs of “Reid House.”
COX, CHARLES HARDING (MSS 330)
Papers, 1860-1928; .25 linear ft. (1 box, 2 bound volumes, 1 reel microfilm)
Cox (1844-1928) was a Union soldier who served as a member of the 70th Regiment of the Indiana Infantry. After the war he spent part of his life in Georgia as a resident of Ball Ground, Decatur, Atlanta, and Marietta, Ga. Several of Cox’s wartime letters describe the fighting in and around Atlanta in 1864 and some of his postwar letters discuss places in and around Atlanta.
CRAIG, CALVIN FRED (MSS 612)
Papers, ca. 1957-1975; 3 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Calvin Craig was Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia during the 1950s and 1960s. He made some effort to get into the political mainstream. The collection includes publications of the Klan and similar organizations, clippings, brochures and items of Klan clothing.
CURRY, CONSTANCE (MSS 818)
Papers, 1951-1997; 8 linear ft. (14 boxes and 1 oversized paper)
Constance Curry (b. 1933), civil rights activist, became Director of the Office of Human Services for the City of Atlanta in 1975. The collection includes a small amount of material concerning her work with the Atlanta city government.
DANIEL, FRANK (WILLIAM FRANK) (MSS 445)
Papers, 1914-1973; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes, 4 oversized papers)
Daniel (1900-1981) was a journalist for the Atlanta Journal who served as opera critic, theater critic, book editor, editorial page columnist, and general assignment editor. The collection contains correspondence, much of it with prominent Atlantans and Southern literary figures, clippings, photographs, and literary manuscripts.
DAVIS, JAMES C. (JAMES CURRAN) (MSS 507)
Papers, 1919-1966; 221 linear ft. (221 boxes, 5 oversized papers, 14 framed items)
Davis (1895-1981) served as a State Representative from DeKalb County (1931-1934), as a Democratic Representative from Georgia to the US Congress (1947-1963), and as a publisher of the Atlanta Times (1964-1965). The collection contains correspondence, clippings, reports, and other materials from Davis’ Washington files. The collection also includes some personal papers.
DAVIS, MARY R. (MSS 742)
Papers, 1950-1986; 6 linear ft. (6 boxes)
Davis (1903-1992) was an alumna of Emory University, and served as Reference Archivist in the Special Collections Department, Woodruff Library, Emory University. She was a prominent civic and political leader in Atlanta. She belonged to the Georgia and DeKalb chapters of the League of Women Voters, as well as being an active Democrat. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, clippings and photographs.
DAVIS, ROSE (MSS 125)
Papers, 1921-1973; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
The papers of this Atlanta nurse contain correspondence (primarily with Robert W. Woodruff and his wife, Nell Hodgson Woodruff), programs, photographs, and clippings. The collection includes materials regarding Emory University School of Nursing, its early history and the dedication of its present building.
DAVISON, HAL MCCLUNEY (MSS 527)
Papers, 1911-1958; 9.5 linear ft. (10 boxes, 1 bound volume, 1 oversized paper)
Davison (1891-1958), a physician, served as a professor of medicine at Emory University (1923-1943), as President of Fulton County Medical Society, and as an officer and member of numerous other professional organizations. He was also a member of numerous Atlanta civic and social clubs. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, biographical information, speeches, and writings including typescripts of his book Doctors and Dogs Don’t Count. The collection also includes materials relating to Albert Schweitzer, the Red Cross in Russia, 1919-1920, the Active Voters League of Atlanta, and various medical topics, particularly allergies and professional organizations.
DAY, BUTTS, AND SEABROOKS FAMILIES (MSS 1044)
Papers, [ca. 1900-1986]; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
The Day, Butts, and Seabrooks families are African American families from Atlanta, Georgia. The collection contains papers related to these families from 1900-1986. The papers include funeral bulletins of family members, discharge papers of Marion Day, a certificate from the Adelphi Club, a bank book from the Mutual Federal Savings and Loan Association of Atlanta, Georgia and other financial papers belonging to John L. Seabrooks, and a 1949 yearbook from Booker T. Washington High School.
DELORME, GRACE MCKINLEY HOLMES (MSS 910)
Papers; 4 linear ft. (4 boxes)
Grace McKinley Holmes DeLorme (1906-199?), a prominent African American from Atlanta, Georiga, taught biology at Spelman College. The collection consists of the papers of Grace Mckinley Holmes DeLorme and the DeLorme family and includes correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks and printed material.
DICKEY, JAMES EDWARD (MSS 67)
Papers, 1903-1920; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Dickey (1864-1928) was a Methodist clergyman, the president of Emory College (1902-1915), pastor of the First Methodist Church of Atlanta (1915-1920), and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1922-1928). The collection contains a small amount of correspondence, commencement and baccalaureate addresses from the period of Dickey’s presidency of Emory. The collection also contains sermon notes (ca. 1915-1920.)
DOBBINS, JOHN S. (MSS 322)
Papers, 1834-1916; 2 reels microfilm
Dobbins (1800-1886) was a prosperous farmer and merchant, predominantly in north Georgia. One member of the family was briefly in business, shortly after the Civil War, in Atlanta. The collection includes letters, legal and business papers and is concerned with business, economic, political and social affairs, farm and family life.
DOVE, PEARLIE CRAFT (MSS 864)
Papers, 1958-1996; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes and 1 oversized paper)
Pearlie Craft Dove served as Cluster Coordinator for The Atlanta Project from 1992-1996. The mission of the Atlanta Project, which was sponsored by the Carter Center, is to improve the quality of life in local neighborhoods by helping the areas’ residents better identify and meet human needs. The materials relating to The Atlanta Project (1992-1996) consist of minutes, newsletters, proposals, strategic plans, reports, and information on programs and projects sponsored by the project, including a videotape from The Washington Cluster of The Atlanta Project.
DRUID HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION (ATLANTA, GA.) (MSS 65)
Records, 1938-1990; 32.25 linear ft. (64 boxes, 4 oversized papers, 2 bound volumes)
The organization was formed in 1938 to further civic improvements, protect property rights, improve educational facilities, and promote the general welfare of that section of Atlanta bounded by Briarcliff, LaVista, Clairmont, Scott Boulevard, and Ponce de Leon. The collection includes minutes of general meetings and treasurer’s reports, committee activities and reports, correspondence, petitions, resolutions, bylaws, and miscellaneous material, including a 1939 directory, rosters of officers, and announcements. Papers relate to the Association’s opposition to annexation to Atlanta and to the erection of a war housing project at Clairmont and North Decatur Road, to their interest in and support of the Druid Hills School, increased firemen’s salaries, improvement of roads and sidewalks, installation of street and traffic lights, decrease in water and sewage rates, the introduction of feeder buslines, and the preservation of the Fernbank reserve; and to their opposition to the Stone Mountain Freeway and the Presidential Parkway.
Restriction: Access to financial records in box 47 is restricted.
DUNAWAY, KATHRYN FINK (MSS 618)
Papers, 1951-1981; 15 linear ft. (15 boxes)
Dunaway (ca. 1906-1980) was a political activist in Georgia, predominantly for conservative causes. Her involvements included the Eagle Forum, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Republican Party and the Stop ERA Committee of Georgia. The papers include correspondence, subject files and printed materials.
Restrictions: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
DUNBAR, LESLIE (MSS 694)
Papers; 14.5 linear ft. (19 boxes)
Leslie Dunbar (1921-) is a writer, consultant, and educator. He served as a political science professor at Emory University (1948-1951), and was the executive director of the Southern Regional Council (1961-1965). He has also served as director for a number of other councils and foundations. Dunbar has also published five books on social welfare, minorities, and liberalism. Materials in the collection include correspondence personal and professional, lectures, articles, speeches, book reviews, audio recordings of interviews and speeches (of other people), typescripts of books, holographs, and 13 issues of New South (a publication of the Southern Regional Council, 1962-1965.)
Restrictions: Access to boxes 4-6 and 15 is restricted.
ERA GEORGIA, INC (MSS 622)
Records, ca. 1960-1982; 6 linear ft. (6 boxes, 1 bound volume)
This equal rights organization included women such as Cathey Steinberg and Sherry Sutton who later became active in Atlanta politics. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, publications, reports, notecards and audiotapes.
EARLY, CLIFFORD CABEL (MSS 264)
Papers, 1938-1967; 9 linear ft. (12 boxes,12 oversized bound volumes)
Early ([1883]-1967) was the commander of Ft. McPherson (1941-1943) and an active participant in Atlanta civic organizations. The collection includes correspondence, estate papers, scrapbooks and memorabilia relating to his military career and his memberships in various Atlanta civic and social clubs. Some papers of his wife, Harriet, are also included.
Restrictions: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
EGERTON, JOHN (MSS 915)
Papers; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Egerton, free-lance writer and author, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1935. The collection contains materials collected by Egerton relating to John Popham, a journalist with the New York Times and William Gordon, an editor of the Atlanta Daily World. The papers include notes, printed material, and audio and videotapes documenting the Popham Seminars from 1997-2000.
Egerton’s papers are also located in the Special Collections and University Archives of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University.
ELLIS, ELMO ISRAEL (MSS 616)
Papers, 1947-1981; 25 linear ft. (25 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 39 sound recordings)
Mr. Ellis (1918-) is a retired executive and broadcaster for WSB, an Atlanta radio station. During his lengthy career, he created many radio programs. The collection includes sound recordings, clippings, and other papers by or about Ellis.
ELLISON, ALICE ROBERTA PARKS (MSS 906)
Papers; 1934-1960; .5 linear ft. (1 box and 20 bound volumes)
Alice Roberta Parks Ellison, a resident of Atlanta, lived in the West End district and belonged to a number of religious and social organizations, mostly prior to her marriage, including the Shiloh Baptist Church, the American Woodman, the Atlanta Negro Music Club, and the Hi-Hi Club, of which she served as president.
The papers consist of material collected by Ellison, mostly documenting her participation in African American social and religious organizations in Atlanta, Georgia and include scrapbooks, photographs, correspondence, church bulletins, and programs from events in Atlanta.
EMMERICH, CHARLES O. (MSS 517)
Scrapbook, 1960-1964; 1 oversized paper
Emmerich (1902-1967) was the business manager of Emory University (1948-1960) and served as chairman of the DeKalb County Commission from 1960 to 1964. The collection includes a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and other material relating to DeKalb County between 1960 and 1964. The clippings concern government, history, planning and zoning, businesses, community services, public safety, construction, public works, finances, education, industry and advertising.
EMORY UNIVERSITY. ATWOOD, SANFORD S. (RG 100/Series No. 2)
Office Files, ca. 1963-1977; 18 boxes
Atwood was the president of Emory University from 1963 to 1977. The collection includes correspondence, reports, printed materials relating to Atwood’s presidency of Emory, and his tenure on the City of Atlanta Housing Resources Committee from 1966-1971.
EMORY UNIVERSITY. BARKER, TOMMIE DORA (RG 800/Series No. 12)
Papers, 1905-1971; 6 boxes
Barker (1888-1978) was a librarian and educator in Atlanta. Most of the papers concern the American Library Association (for which she was field agent, 1930-1935) and the Carnegie Library School (of which she was director, 1915-1950). She was instrumental in the founding and functioning of numerous library organizations.
EMORY UNIVERSITY. CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN SOCIAL CHANGE (FRED R. CRAWFORD) (RG 600/Series No. 10)
Office Files, ca. 1950-1980s; 20 boxes
The center studied such topics as mental health, violence and crime, community relations, racial attitudes, aging, and human resources. Many of the organizations, neighborhoods and institutions studied are in and around the Atlanta area. The files contain correspondence, documents, reports, printed materials and videocassettes.
EMORY UNIVERSITY. MIZELL, ROBERT COTTER (Series No. 6)
Office Files, 1935-1955; 6 boxes
Mizell (1889-1955), an Atlanta businessman, was the director of development and finance for Emory University (1935-1955), the acting dean of Emory Business School (1942-1946), and the president of the Atlanta Taxpayers League, (1932). The collection includes correspondence, articles, clippings, reports, photographs, speeches,and other items related to Mizell's association with Emory. The collection also contains materials on Agnes Scott College, Fernbank, Atlanta hospitals, Georgia Tech, Morris Brown and Clark Colleges, Oglethorpe University, the University Center in Atlanta, Butler Street CME Church, the Atlanta City/Fulton County proposed governmental merger, 1935-1937, and the Atlanta police department.
EMORY UNIVERSITY. WARD, JUDSON C. (Series No. 27)
Office Files (Vice President and Dean of Faculties), 1930-1992; 36 boxes
Ward (1912-) served as a professor of History, as vice-president, as dean of faculties, and as dean of alumni of Emory University. The collection consists primarily of Emory archival material from the office of Dean Ward, but also includes research papers, materials from classes Ward taught at Emory, and class notes from Ward's own days as a student at Emory. The collection also contains audio recordings of lectures on Georgia history and a transcript of an oral history interview with Ward on Cobb County.
EMORY UNIVERSITY. WHITAKER, ROBERT FLEMING (Series No. 4)
Office Files, 1925-1970; 1 box, 4 file drawers
Whitaker (1904-1969), an Emory University administrator from 1931-1969, served as superintendent of Emory Hospital (1944-1953), as associate director of development, (1953-1959), and as assistant to the president (1942-1944), (1959-1969). The collection includes correspondence, reports and statistics relating to Emory. The bulk of the material is dated 1955-1965. The collection also includes some material on the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Services, Inc., and the University Center in Georgia.
Note: Portions of these papers are restricted.
EMORY UNIVERSITY. WHITE, GOODRICH COOK (RG 100/Series No. 1)
Office Files, 1905-1975; 34 boxes
White (1889-), an Emory alumnus, ('08) continued his career at Emory as a professor of psychology (1914-1942), as the dean of both the College of Arts and Sciences (1923-1938) and the Graduate School (1929-1942), as president (1942-1957), and as chancellor (1957-1979). The collection consists of personal and general correspondence, speeches, writings, financial correspondence, speeches, writings, financial correspondence and records, biographical information and memorabilia. The bulk of the materials relate to White's professional and civic careers, but the collection also includes some family papers and memorabilia.
ENGLISH, THOMAS H. (THOMAS HOPKINS) (MSS 275)
Papers, 1905-1990; 17.5 linear ft. (34 boxes, 3 oversized papers, 6 oversized bound volumes, 2 bound volumes, 2 oral histories, 15 medals)
English (1895-1992) was a professor of English at Emory University from 1925 to 1964 and the author of Emory University, 1915-1965: A Semicentennial History. The collection contains correspondence, poetry, photographs, articles and speeches, scrapbooks, bookplates, greeting cards, memorabilia, subject files, medals, collected material, manuscripts and an audiocassette and videocassette relating to Dr. English's teaching and writing career. It includes his books and other publications as well as materials relating to his participation in the Southern Humanities Conference.
EPISCOPAL SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL AND RACIAL UNITY (U.S.)
(MSS 723)
Records, 1961-1966; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
The Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity, a voluntary society, was founded in 1960 with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Its stated purpose was to establish total participation in the Church for all persons regardless of race, class, or national origin.
The records consist of statements of purpose, newsletters, official correspondence, materials relating to the Lovett School segregation controversy, and collected material.
ESTES, WILLIAM CALLAWAY (MSS 509)
Papers, 1875-1926; 1 linear ft. (1 box, 1 oversized paper)
Estes (1856-1926) was a Georgia physician from Rex (Clayton County) and was a resident of Atlanta from 1901 to 1916. The collection includes account books (1899-1926), a grain cradle contract (1885), three deeds of indenture for Clayton County land lots (1875-1887), and a diploma from the Atlanta Medical College.
EVERY SATURDAY CLUB, (ATLANTA, GA.) (MSS 198)
Programs, 1895-1981; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
The collection consists of the programs of an Atlanta women’s discussion group, affiliated with the Atlanta Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1895-1981. Programs provide the names of members and officers as well as a schedule of presentations by each member.
FARINHOLT, KATHARINE WOLTZ (MSS 597)
Papers, 1930-1984; 8.5 linear ft. (18 boxes, 11 oversized bound volumes, 3 oversized papers)
Farinholt (1912-1990) was an educator and activist in social, cultural and religious causes. Her interests included Agnes Scott College, the Westminster School (where she was an administrator), the National Association of Women Deans, the Child Service Association, and many others. Her papers include correspondence (both business and family), cards, clippings, pictures, mementoes, printed materials, and scrapbooks.
FEATHERSTON, LUCIUS HORACE (MSS 504)
Papers, 1825-1979; 10.5 linear ft. (21 boxes, 2 bound volumes, 1 oversized bound volume, 3 oversized papers)
Featherston (1814-1886) was a lawyer, judge and landowner in Newnan, Ga., near Atlanta. The collection including the papers of many family members, touches on the Atlanta Medical College in the 1890s and the arts in Atlanta (1920-1970). It includes personal and business records, correspondence, diaries, legal and financial papers, genealogical materials and photographs.
FEMINIST ACTION ALLIANCE, INC. (ATLANTA, GA) (MSS 568)
Records, 1973-1984; 8 linear ft. (8 boxes)
The Feminist Action Alliance is a statewide organization founded and headquartered in Atlanta for the purpose of promoting equality for women and supporting feminist legislation. The FAA has addressed such issues as female political advocacy and candidacy; equal access to employment and economic opportunities; the crime of rape and the treatment of rape victims in the criminal justice system; and family issues. The collection includes organizational records including correspondence, minutes, membership records, publications, committee working files, funding proposals, public relations materials, newsletters, and program materials.
FOGLE, THEODORE T. (THEODORE TURNER) (MSS 436)
Papers, 1851-1865, .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Fogle (1834-1864) was a Confederate soldier from Columbus, Ga. and a member of Co. G, 2nd Regt. Georgia Volunteer Infantry ("Columbus Guards"). The majority of Fogle's letters concern his service in the Columbus Guards in which he comments on his contact with other Georgians, but the collection also contains several letters he wrote from Marietta, Ga. while attending Georgia Military Institute, 1852-1853.
FRANK, LEO (MSS 674)
Collection, 1915-1988; .75 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 3 reels microfilm)
Leo Frank (1884-1915), superintendent of the National Pencil Factory of Atlanta, was sentenced to death for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan. The case garnered a great deal of notoriety at the time. Two years after his 1913 conviction, Governor John Slaton commuted the sentence and a mob subsequently captured and lynched Frank. The collection contains the commutation hearing transcript, defense attorney's notes, speech, pardon materials, clippings, poem and a thesis.
Finding aids: collection description, EUCLID, RLIN.
Restrictions: Restrictions on reproduction, as noted in collection description.
FULTON BAG AND COTTON MILLS (ATLANTA, GA.) (MSS 614)
Records, 1881-1958; 2.75 linear ft. (4 boxes, 8 oversized bound volumes, 3 oversized papers, 1 reel microfilm)
Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills was established in 1881 by a German immigrant, Jacob Elsas. A factory-supported and -built mill village, eventually known as Cabbagetown, grew up around the mill after 1881. Elsas started a clinic and nursery for mill employees and their children. At its height of prosperity, during and just after World War II, the mill employed 2700 workers. By the 1980s the company had been subsumed by Fabric America. The collection includes business records, correspondence, scrapbooks, historical information and photographs.
GAINES, MARTHA WREN (MSS 669)
Papers, 1962-1987; 15.75 linear ft. (35 boxes, 18 oversized papers, 1 oversized bound volume, 7 audiocassettes, 2 videocassettes)
Gaines (1939-1987) was a human rights and civil liberties activist in Atlanta. Her interests included feminist causes such as ERA and NOW and she worked as a compliance officer for MARTA from 1977-1987. She was also involved in local politics. The collection includes correspondence, printed materials, audiocassettes and videocassettes, speeches and reports.
Finding aids: collection description, EUCLID, RLIN.
Restrictions: Restrictions on access, as noted in collection description.
GEFFEN FAMILY (MSS 651)
Papers, ca. 1923-1996; 73 linear ft. (105 boxes)
The Geffen family has roots deep in both the Atlanta Jewish community and Emory University. The patriarch, Tobias Geffen, became rabbi of the Shearith Israel Congregation in 1910. Louis Geffen was a lawyer, involved in Atlanta and North Georgia cases. Many family members attended Emory and maintain strong ties with the university. The collection includes printed materials, personal and religious papers, photographs, school notebooks, research materials on Ralph McGill, radio scripts, sheet music and memorabilia.
Restrictions: Permission for any type of reproduction must be secured in writing from donor.
GEORGIA MISCELLANY (MSS 44)
Collection, 1735- ; .5 linear ft. (2 boxes, 3 bound volumes, 6 oversized bound volumes, 3 oversized papers, 1 reel microfilm)
The collection consists of single items or small groups of manuscripts written in Georgia, or by, to or about Georgians and Georgia. Includes letters, diaries, articles, poems, lectures, and documents. Some pieces were created in Atlanta or relate to Atlanta.
GEORGIA POLITICAL LEADERS (MSS 280)
Autographs, 1782-1940; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
The collection contains letters of politically prominent Georgians. Letters deal primarily with routine patronage or business matters. Includes a number of letters written from Atlanta, and by or to Atlantans.
GEORGIA PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES ORAL HISTORY (MSS 733)
Collection, 1986-1991; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes)
The collection consists of oral history interviews with Georgia public health nurses in the Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia areas, conducted from 1986-1991. The collection highlights nursing as one of the few vocational options open to women during the mid-twentieth century and includes information on their training, education, and employment.
GEORGIA WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION (MSS 647)
Records, 1888-1982; 26 linear ft. (58 boxes, 67 oversized papers, 2 audiocassettes)
The Georgia WCTU was established in Atlanta in 1883. Besides their opposition to alcohol, members were concerned with other social reforms such as municipal improvements and compulsory education. The bulk of the collection falls in the 1930-1956 time period and includes correspondence, reports, minutes, financial and membership records, printed materials and memorabilia.
Restrictions: Researchers are required to use photocopies of The Georgia Bulletin (oversized papers 8-26)) due to the fragile nature of the originals.
GOSNELL, CULLEN BRYANT (MSS 425)
Papers, 1919-1964; 4.5 linear ft. (9 boxes, 7 oversized bound volume, 1 oversized paper)
Gosnell (1893-1963) was a professor of Political Science at Emory University, founder and director of Emory’s Institute of Citizenship, an author of several books on government, and an active proponent of governmental reform in Georgia. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, articles, speeches, clippings, printed material, and scrapbook relating to Gosnell's career, particularly the Institute of Citizenship, the publication of his books, his Wofford College associations, the establishment of a book fund in his name in the Emory Library, and to his political interests, especially his fight against the county unit system.
GRADY, HENRY WOODFIN (MSS 28)
Papers, 1828-1971; 1.5 linear ft. (4 boxes, 11 bound volumes, 1 oversized paper)
Grady (1850-1889) was the managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, (1880-1889) and gained national prominence with his "New South" philosophy. The collection includes correspondence, legal papers, manuscripts of speeches, diaries, an account book, photographs, scrapbooks, and the manuscript of Raymond B. Nixon’s biography, Henry W. Grady: Spokesman of the New South (1943).
GREGORY, CLEBURNE E. (MSS 604)
Legal Files, 1946-1947; 2 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Cleburne E. Gregory (1911-1982), attorney, was a graduate of Emory University and the University of Georgia School of Law. He was one of the founders of Arnall, Golden & Gregory law firm in Atlanta (Ga.) and served as assistant attorney general under Attorney General Ellis Arnall in the late 1930’s. The collection consists of legal documents from the files of Cleburne E. Gregory pertaining to Georgia court cases regarding the 1946 two governor controversy and the legality of the county unit system from 1946-1947. Includes briefs and research notes prepared by attorneys involved in the cases, reports of fees and expenses, affidavits, general correspondence, and masterfiles of all papers submitted to the courts.
GRESHAM, RICHARD C. (MSS 83)
Papers, 1917-1967; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Gresham (d. 1972) was a Baptist minister of Moultrie, Ga., and a friend of Robert W. Woodruff. The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and certificates. Much of the material is memorabilia relating to Robert W. Woodruff and the Coca-Cola Company.
GRIFFIN, JOHN A. (MSS 767)
Papers, 1964-1966; 58.25 linear ft. (58 boxes, 3 oral histories)
John A. Griffin (1912-1997) was a founding member of the Southern Regional Council, in which he remained active for 50 years. In 1964 he went to Washington, D.C. to work for former Florida Governor LeRoy Collins as deputy director of the U.S. Community Relations Service. In this role he mediated racial conflicts in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. From 1965-1978, as director of the Southern Education Foundation, his focus was on education equity for black youth in the South.
The papers include correspondence, reports, student papers, audio-visual material, and other material documenting Griffin’s education, career as a professor and as an arbitrator, his work with the Southern Regional Council, and school desegregation.
GRIFFITH, BEVERLY (MSS 42)
Papers, 1832-1973; .5 linear ft. (1 box, 4 oversized papers)
Griffith was the Public Relations Director of Eastern Airlines (which was headquartered in Atlanta). The collection includes correspondence, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia, most of which relates to Griffith’s career with Eastern Airlines. Included are some materials of musical events in Atlanta and articles relating to the history of Atlanta.
HAAS, BE (BEATRICE HIRSCH) (MSS 781)
Papers, 1927-1993; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Be Haas (1905-) was a fundraising consultant in Atlanta who was engaged in many public relations endeavors, including work with the League of Women Voters, Atlanta Local Govt. Commission, and Commission to Redraft the Constitution of Georgia. Materials in the collection relate to Be Haas's career and include correspondence, clippings, photographs, and printed materials.
HALLENBORG, LINDA KURTZ (MSS 671)
Papers, 1980-1988; 9 boxes, 1 oversized paper
Linda Kurtz, known as Linda Kurtz Hallenborg during her years in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., has been active in numerous political and feminist causes. While she lived in Atlanta, she was a lecturer at the Martin Luther King Center for Non-Violent Social Change. Other local organizations in which she was involved include Georgia Women's Political Caucus, ERA Georgia, National Women's Political Caucus, and Planned Parenthood of the Atlanta Area. The collection includes minutes, reports, speeches, correspondence, memoranda, printed materials and files.
Note: On loan to Georgia State University, Special Collections Department.
HAMBLETON, JAMES PINKNEY (MSS 29)
Papers, 1857-1893; .25 linear ft. (1 box, 1 oversized paper)
Hambleton (1830-1897) was a Virginia-born physician who moved to Atlanta in the late 1850s and served as the first editor of the Southern Confederacy (1859-1861). He also was a surgeon with the Georgia Infantry (1861-1862). After the war he moved to Washington, D.C. when he worked as a lobbyist and as the clerk of the House Ways and Means Committee. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, and a few miscellaneous items. Letters concern national politics, Reconstruction Georgia, Southern claims for compensation for cotton confiscated during the Civil War, and family matters.
HAMES, MARGIE PITTS (MSS 825)
Papers, 1969-1993; 98 linear ft. (98 boxes)
Margie Pitts Hames (d. 1993) graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1961 and began practicing law in Atlanta with Fisher and Phillips, specializing in labor-management relations. In 1969, Hames volunteered for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a Ford Foundation project that worked to prevent confrontations between civil rights demonstrators and police. She opened her own firm in 1971. The collection includes case files which provide information on civil rights issues in Atlanta.
HANIE, ROBERT EDWARD (MSS 702)
Papers, 1961-1979; 26 linear ft. (26 boxes)
Robert Hanie (1937-) is an author, educator, and student of social change. He was the founder of the Georgia Conservancy and the executive director of Atlanta 2000, a public planning corporation found in July 1973 to study the problems of human ecology that would be faced in the Atlanta metropolitan area by the turn of the twenty-first century. The collection includes personal papers and organizational records spanning the work of Atlanta 2000 and Hanie’s association with the organization from 1973-1979.
HANLEY-BELL FUNERAL HOME (ATLANTA, GA) (MSS 893)
Records; 60 linear ft. (60 boxes)
The Hanley-Bell Funeral Home, which served the African American community in Atlanta, was founded by Jesse Howard Hanley in 1917. The collection consists of the records of the Hanley-Bell Funeral Home and includes funeral files, death certificates, financial records, and office files.
HANSON, GLADYS (MSS 540)
Papers, 1908-1965; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Hanson (1887-1973) was an Atlanta-born actress who performed throughout the country, including Broadway, and in London in the early twentieth century. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, promotional material, and miscellaneous family papers, including an Atlanta Opera House stock certificate (1868).
HARDING, VINCENT (MSS 868)
Papers, 1952-1974; 29.25 linear ft. (59 boxes and 27 oversized papers)
Vincent Harding and his wife served as founders and co-directors of an interracial work project, The Mennonite House in Atlanta, from 1961-1964. Vincent Harding then chaired the History and Sociology Department at Spelman College from 1964-1969. He also worked to help organize the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, including the Library-Documentation Project and the Institute of the Black World. In 1970 when the Institute became an independent entity, Harding’s relationship to the King Center ended and he became director of the Institute until 1974.
The papers document Harding’s work with the Mennonite Church, Spelman College, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Center, the Institute of the Black World, and include subject files, writings, printed materials and personal papers.
HARRIS, J. ROBIN (JAMES ROBIN) (MSS 661)
Papers, 1973-1984; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
J. Robin Harris (1925-1989) was a banker (CEO of Decatur Federal Savings and Loan) and DeKalb representative in the state House of Representatives. He managed George Busbee's gubernatorial campaigns in 1974 and 1978, sponsored legislation creating MARTA, and was instrumental in the founding of the Fernbank Science Center. He was the great-grandson of author Joel Chandler Harris. The collection includes correspondence, printed material, reports, and subject files related to Harris' career, primarily in the Georgia legislature.
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER (MSS 5)
Papers, 1862-1978; 12.5 linear ft. (41 boxes, 17 oversized boxes, 1 bound volume, 25 reels microfilm)
Harris (1848-1908) was a journalist with the Atlanta Constitution (1876-1900), and the author of the "Uncle Remus" stories. The collection contains Harris's papers as well as the papers of various members of his family. The collection includes Harris's correspondence, literary manuscripts, articles, and photographs. The correspondence includes family letters as well as the letters of his publishers, important literary figures, national political and industrial leaders, and his readers. Also included are numerous materials about Harris and his career including reviews, biographical and critical articles, clippings, illustrations for his stories, and memorabilia.
HARRIS, JULIAN HOKE (MSS 450)
Papers, 1925-1977; 3 linear ft. (6 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Harris (1906-1987) was a sculptor, architect, and professor of architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, programs of exhibitions, and miscellaneous materials regarding Harris' artistic career. Most of this material relates to Harris' design and execution of numerous commemorative medals and of sculpture for more than 50 public buildings in Atlanta and the Southeast. Other materials cover Harris' service to the Stone Mountain Memorial Association (1936-1958).
HARRIS, JULIAN LAROSE (MSS 6)
Papers, 1890-1968; 22.25 linear ft. (44 boxes, 26 bound volumes, 4 oversized papers)
Harris (1874-1963) , an Atlanta journalist, was associated with the Atlanta Constitution (1892-1907 and 1930-1935), and served as editor of the Uncle Remus Home Magazine (1907-1912), the Atlanta Daily News (1904-1905), and the Columbus, Ga. Enquirer-Sun (1920-1929). He was also associated with several other newspapers including The New York Times (1942-1945) as southern correspondent headquartered in Atlanta. During Harris's tenure with the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, the paper received the Pultizer Prize (1926) for its fight against the Klu Klux Klan. The collection contains correspondence, diaries, literary manuscripts, scrapbooks, clippings, articles, editorials, and photographs of Harris and his wife Julia Collier Harris, also a journalist and writer. Subjects include education, politics, travel, race relations, and evolution.
HARRISON, EMILY STEWART (MSS 556)
Papers, 1829-1979, 17.25 linear ft. (35 boxes, 20 oversized papers, 1 audiocassette)
Harrison (1874-1973) was an Atlanta journalist, educator and progressive reformer. She taught English in Atlanta, served as editor of the Women's Department of the Atlanta Daily News (1901-1902), and worked to preserve her family's forested estate at Fernbank. The collection includes personal and business correspondence, writings, printed material, legal and financial records, and photographs documenting Harrison's life work and travels. The collection also contains family papers, including those of her father Z.D. Harrison, Atlanta judge, owner of the Fernbank estate, and officer of the Episcopal Church, Atlanta Diocese, as well as those of James M. Ball, pioneer Atlanta citizen.
HARROLD BROTHERS (FIRM: AMERICUS, GA.) (MSS 7)
Records, 1826-1964, (bulk 1837-1953), 212 linear ft. (487 boxes, 2148 bound volumes, 7 oversized papers)
This collection of materials from a business firm engaged in various aspects of cotton trade and merchandising located in Americus, Ga., includes correspondence, ledgers, cash journals, invoices, accounts, deeds, wills, agreements, letter books, copy books, bills, receipts, and other documents relating to the day-to-day transactions of the business. Among the business correspondence are a number of letters from Atlanta firms.
HARTSFIELD, WILLIAM BERRY (MSS 558)
Papers, 1892-1980; 33.75 linear ft. (60 boxes, 12 oversized papers)
Hartsfield (1890-1971) was an attorney, politician, and mayor of Atlanta between 1937 and 1962. The collection includes personal papers, general correspondence, subject files, writings by Hartsfield (speeches and articles), pamphlets, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photographs, and memorabilia which document Hartsfield's political, business, and personal life. Other topics covered by the papers are the growth of commercial aviation in Atlanta, annexation of Buckhead and Sandy Springs, develoversipapersment of the Chattahoochee River and the building of Buford Dam, the 1939 Gone With the Wind premiere, race relations in the city, and in general, the evolution of Atlanta into a major metropolitan area.
HARTSOCK, ERNEST ABNER (MSS 30)
Papers, 1921-1931; 3 linear ft. (6 boxes, 1 bound volume, 1 oversized paper, 1 oversized bound volume)
Hartsock (1903-1930) was an Atlanta poet as well as the founder and publisher of the Bozart Press. The collection includes correspondence, numerous prose and poetry manuscripts, published poems and articles, clippings, and photographs. The correspondence is chiefly literary rather than personal, and includes messages from many well known writers of the period.
HAVEN, GILBERT (MSS 292)
Papers, 1873-1875; 1 reel microfilm
Haven (1821-1880) was a Massachusetts-born bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, an author, and an abolitionist. The church sent him to work in Atlanta in 1872. The collection contains correspondence relating to missionary efforts of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Mexico, and in the U.S., and some letters discuss social and political conditions in Atlanta.
Note: Originals at Cornell University.
HAYGOOD, ATTICUS G. (ATTICUS GREENE) (MSS 138)
Papers, 1861-1952; 1 linear ft. (3 boxes, 12 bound volumes, 2 oversized papers)
Haygood (1839-1896) was a Methodist minister, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1890-1896), president of Emory College, Oxford, Ga. (1875-1884), and the first agent for the John F. Slater Fund for Negro education in the South (1882-1890). The collection contains manuscript sermons, newsclippings, and family papers. The family papers include a diary (1864-1868) and letterbook of Bishop Haygood's sister Laura Askew Haygood (1845-1900). Laura Haygood was a Methodist missionary to China and operated a private school for girls in Atlanta (1866-1872), after which she taught at and served as principal of Girl's High School in Atlanta.
HEMPHILL, WILLIAM ARNOLD (MSS 511)
Collection, 1898-1969; .25 linear ft. (one 1 folder)
Hemphill (1842-1902) was the founder and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, mayor of Atlanta (1891-1892), president of the Capitol City Bank, the Atlanta Board of Education, and the YMCA, and trustee of Grady Hospital and Emory University. The collection contains primarily photocopies of materials about Hemphill, including letters, an extract of a speech, clippings, and biographical data. The collection includes one original record book.
HIGHTOWER, GRACE (MSS 561)
Papers, 1936-1976; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 1 bound volume)
Hightower (1918- ) was an Atlanta librarian and a library consultant for the Georgia Department of Education. The collection includes correspondence, speeches, articles, and printed material regarding Grace Hightower’s career. Materials relate particularly to school libraries.
HOWELL, CLARK (MSS 501)
Papers, 1864-1936; 3 linear ft. (7 boxes, 1 bound volume, 3 oversized bound volumes)
Howell (1863-1936) was editor-in-chief of the Atlanta Constitution (1901-1936), a Georgia legislator (1885-1891 and 1900-1906), a gubernatorial candidate (1907), and a trustee of the University of Georgia (1896-1927). The collection consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, published speeches and writings, genealogy, postcards, photographs, transcripts, obituaries, and an interview relating to Howell's life, career, travels, and to the Howell family. A few items relate to Howell's father, Evan Park Howell, first editor of the Constitution, and mayor of Atlanta.
HUMPHREY, JOHN (MSS 497)
Papers, 1856-1865; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Humphrey (1818- )was a Union soldier from Ohio during the Civil War. His collection includes a letter from Humphrey to his wife written from Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign; an Atlanta telephone directory for 1902; and a picture of the Atlanta fire of 1917.
HUNTER, FLOYD (MSS 662)
Papers, 1933-1989; 21.5 linear ft. (48 boxes)
Hunter (1912-1992) was a social worker, community activist, professor and author. His most famous book, Community Power Structure, derived from his doctoral dissertation and introduced the concept of the power structure. While it did not overtly identify the business elite of Atlanta, it was based on them. Hunter wrote other books and articles and taught at several universities. The collection includes correspondence, writings (both published and unpublished), notes, source materials, speeches, lectures and working papers.
Restrictions: Reproduction of entire unpublished manuscripts without permission of donor or his representative prohibited.
IVERSON FAMILY (MSS 427)
Papers, 1821-1928; 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 reel microfilm)
This collection contains the papers of various members of a Central Georgia family including Iverson and Branham relatives who were descendants of Alfred Iverson, U.S. senator from Georgia, (1855-1861). The collection includes correspondence, diary, clippings, articles, scrapbooks, genealogical data, and memorabilia. It includes some correspondence, (1920-1930), of Alfred Iverson Branham, manager of the American Book Company’s Atlanta office.
JARRELL, CHARLES CRAWFORD (MSS 428)
Papers, 1826-1961; 18 linear ft. (32 boxes)
Jarrell (1874-1961) was a Methodist minister, an Emory professor, and a resident of Oxford, Ga. The collection includes correspondence, sermons and sermon notebooks, speeches, writings, photographs, and clippings reflecting the life and career of Jarrell, who held pastorates at several North Georgia churches including Grace Methodist in Atlanta. Materials relate to Methodist hospitals, Emory College and Oxford, Ga. A.J. Jarrell (Methodist leader and father of Charles) and Jarrell family history.
JETT, RICHARD BURCH (MSS 57)
Papers, 1863-1887; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Jett was a farmer and miller from north Fulton County, Georgia and served as a Confederate soldier with Company B of the 9th Georgia Battery of Artillery. Jett was stationed near Atlanta when the war ended in April 1865. The collection consists of Civil War letters of Jett to his wife, (1863-1865), a brief diary kept by Jett in 1865, letters of Nancy Jett to her husband describing the effect of the Federal invasion on the community, and a labor agreement contracted in Fulton County in 1866.
JONES, BOBBY (MSS 500)
Collection, 1920-1989; 4.5 linear ft. (9 boxes, 1 bound volume, 19 oversized papers)
Bobby Jones (1902-1971) was a noted golfer and an Atlanta attorney. He won the Grand Slam in 1930 and developed the Master's Tournament in Augusta. The collection contains photographs, clippings, writings, articles about Jones, records, videotapes, and memorabilia primarily documenting Jones' golfing career.
Restrictions: Access to original films and cassette tapes is restricted for preservation purposes.
JONES, JOSEPH W. (MSS 1003)
Papers, 1969-2003; 20 linear ft. (20 boxes)
Joseph W. Jones, former senior vice-president of the Coca-Cola Company, a longtime associate of Robert W. Woodruff, and chairman emeritus of the Woodruff Foundation. The collection contains the papers of Joseph W. Jones from 1969-1990. The papers include reading files and correspondence relating to his business relationship with Robert W. Woodruff.
JONES, SAM P. (SAM PORTER) (MSS 312)
Papers, 1859-1961; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes, 2 oversized bound volumes)
Jones (1847-1906) was a Methodist evangelist associated with the North Georgia Conference until 1893 when he severed his official connection with the church to devote all his time to evangelical preaching throughout the country. In addition to preaching and lecturing, Jones published several volumes of sermons and for many years wrote a weekly column for the Atlanta Journal. The collection contains letters, pocket diaries, lecture notes and texts, photographs, clippings, and memorabilia relative to Jones' life and career. One bound scrapbook contains clippings of Jones' weekly column for the Atlanta Journal.
KNIGHT, MARY LAMAR (MSS 515)
Papers, 1918-1970; 3.5 linear ft. (7 boxes)
Knight (1899-) was an Atlanta journalist and one of the first woman correspondents on the United Press International (UPI) staff. The collection includes letters, photographs, clippings and other mementoes from her career. The collection also contains photographs of Agnes Scott teachers (1918-1922) and some materials of her father Lucian Lamar Knight, an Atlanta historian and newspaper editor.
KURTZ, WILBUR G. (WILBUR GEORGE) (MSS 586)
Papers, 1888-1979; 4 linear ft. (8 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Kurtz (1882-1967) was an illustrator, historian and author who initially specialized in architectural renderings. Subsequently he became involved in historical illustration and supervised the restoration of the Battle of Atlanta painting at the Atlanta Cyclorama. He was technical advisor for the film Gone with the Wind (1939) and other films with a southern theme. The collection includes visual materials, biographical information, correspondence, printed material, research material, contracts and memorabilia.
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF DEKALB COUNTY, INC. (DEKALB COUNTY, GA) (MSS 773)
Records [1940s-1990s]; 33 linear ft. (33 boxes)
The collection contains the official records of the League. Included are annual reports, membership lists, minutes, financial records, newsletters and other publications, clippings, and correspondence. Also included are recorded and transcribed interviews with Frances Pauley and Rosalie Fitzpatrick (president 1985-1987), as well as a photograph of Charlotte Moran (past president).
LEE, HARRY JAMES (MSS 32)
Papers, 1938; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Lee (1914-1985) was a novelist and journalist. He served on the editorial staff of the Atlanta Constitution. The collection consists of a typescript of Lee's novel Fox in the Cloak which was published in 1938 and is set in Atlanta.
LOKEY, HAMILTON (MSS 758)
Papers, 1945-1992; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Lokey (1910- ) set up the Atlanta Law firm Lokey and Bowden. Lokey was prominent in Atlanta politics, serving in the Georgia General Assembly in the mid 1950s. He and his wife, Muriel Ann Mattson Lokey, continue to reside in Atlanta. The collection consists of correspondence, typescript drafts of Lokey's book, The low key life of Ham Lokey, (Athens, Ga.: Agee Publishers, 1991), speeches and other writings.
LOMAX, MICHAEL (MSS 785)
Papers, 1978-1990; 88 linear ft. (88 boxes)
Lomax is director of the National Faculty, an organization promoting excellence in education. He was a former member of the Fulton County Commission, and political and community leader in Atlanta. The collection includes letters and papers concerning social and political issues in the Atlanta area. It also includes awards, plaques, scrapbooks, clippings, and memorabilia related to his political and community activities. There are audio- and videotapes in addition to the printed materials.
Note: Entire collection is closed to researchers.
LOWRY, ROBERT JAMES (MSS 212)
Collection, 1919; .13 linear ft. (2 folders)
Lowry (1840-1919) , an Atlanta businessman and financier, served as President of Lowry National Bank. The collection consists of approximately 100 clippings relating to his death.
LUMPKIN, WILSON (MSS 286)
Papers, 1839-1840; .13 linear ft. (1 folder)
Lumpkin (1783-1870) was the governor of Georgia from 1831 to 1835, a U.S. senator from Georgia, and a states rights advocate. Marthasville, which later became Atlanta, was named for Lumpkin’s daughter. The collection contains letters concerned with routine political and personal matters.
MACKAY, JAMES A. (JAMES ARMSTRONG) (MSS 456)
Papers, 1963-2002; 17 linear ft. (41 boxes, 11 oversized papers)
Mackay (1919- ), a Decatur resident and graduate of Emory Law School, served six terms in the Georgia legislature representing DeKalb County and one term as a Democratic Congressman from the 4th District of Georgia (1965-1966). Mackay has also served as a member of the Emory Board of Trustees and of other civic organizations. The collection consists primarily of correspondence, documents, speeches, and other materials from Mackay’s files from his congressional term. Much of the materials relate to the passage of the Traffic Safety Act of 1966. Other material relates to federal aid programs in Atlanta, the Georgia Conservancy, Fernbank, Atlanta Urban Region Conference, Emory University, Arts Council of Druid Hills, Atlanta Bar Association, Wesley Homes, Inc., and the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church. The collection also includes some personal papers.
MADDOX, ROBERT FOSTER (MSS 403)
Papers, 1855-1923; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 oversized bound volume)
Maddox (1870-1965) was a prominent Atlanta banker associated with the First National Bank who served as mayor of Atlanta from 1909 to 1910. The collection includes several Civil War items, a number of photographs from World War I taken by Maddox’s son, and a dedication book for the First National Bank, Atlanta, Ga., 1923.
MALONE, HENRY THOMPSON (MSS 613)
Papers, 1933-1977; 15.5 linear ft. (14 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 2 oversized bound volumes)
One of Emory's first Ph.Ds , Thompson (1916-1977) became a history professor and dean of General Studies at Georgia State University. His major academic interest was in the Cherokee Nation about which he wrote several books. He was also involved in civic activities in Atlanta, especially Kiwanis. The collection includes correspondence (both personal and business), clippings, printed materials, subject files, audio tapes and memorabilia.
MANRY, JAMES CAMPBELL (MSS 487)
Papers, 1909-1965; 10 linear ft. (20 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
Manry (1893-1957) taught in India and served as a visiting professor in history of religion at Emory University in 1956. The collection includes letters, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Manry‘s career. Included are materials on India, writings on education, religion and missionary work, biographical material, and miscellaneous memorabilia from Boy’s High School in Atlanta, 1909-1910.
MARTIN, HAROLD H. (MSS 537)
Papers, 1837-1977; 22 linear ft. (53 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
Martin, a journalist and free-lance writer, was a reporter for the Atlanta Georgian, 1932-1939, a columnist for the Atlanta Constitution,1939-1974, and a contributing editor to the Saturday Evening Post, 1951-1969. The collection includes family papers, correspondence, writings, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia. Includes correspondence relating to the Atlanta Constitution,1965-1969; notes, drafts, and source materials (including taped interviews) for Martin’s books, Starlifter: The C-141, Lockheed’s High-speed Flying Truck; Ralph McGill, Reporter; Three Strong Pillars, The Story of the Trust Company of Georgia; Georgia, A Bicentennial History, and materials relating to his unpublished biographies of Robert W. Woodruff, Charles Palmer, and William B. Hartsfield. These research materials contain information about the Coca-Cola Company.
Restrictions: Portions of papers related to research and writing on Robert W. Woodruff restricted for use and reproduction.
MATHEWSON, TRACY (MSS 362)
Papers, 1893-1960; .5 linear ft. (1 box, 8 oversized papers)
Mathewson was a news photographer who served as a picture editor of the Atlanta Georgian, and as a personal photographer to Edward, Prince of Wales. The collection includes correspondence, articles in print and typescript, clippings and photographs. Includes photos of Ty Cobb, Jack Dempsey, Bobo Newsom, Bobby Jones, Kennesaw Landis, Leo Durocher, Graham Jackson, Ed Rivers, Margaret Mitchell, the Georgia Tech football teams for 1893 and 1911, and World War I soldiers. The collection also contains reproductions of Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, Annie Oakley, Edward, Prince of Wales, and the Atlanta fire of 1917.
MAY, JAMES W. (JAMES WILLIAM) (MSS 667)
Papers, 1929-1988; 8.5 linear ft. (16 boxes)
May (1912- ) is professor emeritus of theology at Emory University. During the 1950s and 1960s, in addition to church matters, he was concerned with the issue of school desegregation and the church's response to integration. He was also involved in formulating Emory's position on race relations. May wrote The Glenn Memorial Story, the manuscript of which is in the collection along with bound volumes, printed materials, sermons and correspondence.
MCCANDLESS, FRANCES AUGUSTA COLEMAN (MSS 254)
Papers, 1845-1885, 1929; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
McCandless (1919-1889) was a teacher in the South for 41 years. She spent 21 years in Atlanta at a girls' school she organized and developed. The collection includes a biographical sketch of McCandless, notebooks and a folder with notes, letters and essays.
MCGILL, RALPH (MSS 252)
Papers, 1853-1971; 58.5 linear ft. (118 boxes, 75 bound volumes, 32 oversized papers, 30 framed items, 7 reels microfilm, 11 boxes videotapes, 1 box diskettes)
McGill (1898-1969) was the editor-in-chief (1941-1960) and publisher (1960-1969) of the Atlanta Constitution. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, committee records, records of travel and speaking engagements, financial, business, and legal records, scrapbooks, photographs, and memorabilia. Subjects covered include race relations and integration; local, state, and national politics (1948-1968); education and the public schools in the South and Atlanta; the church and the race issue; the Ku Klux Klan and Columbians in Georgia in the 1930s and the early 1940s. The collection also includes information on organizations such as the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, the Southern Regional Council, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, militant groups of the 1960s and right wing groups. The collection also includes writings about McGill.
MCLEAN, ROSS HANLIN (MSS 550)
Papers, 1905-1975; 11 linear ft. (24 boxes)
McLean (1888-1977) was a professor of history at Emory University (1919-1957), a director of the Atlanta chapter of English-speaking Union, and a director of the Atlanta Council on Foreign Relations. The collection consists of family correspondence, diaries, (19051949), clippings, personal and business records; class notes, departmental correspondence, and other materials relating to Emory University.
MCMURTREY, J. A. (JAMES ADDISON) (MSS 214)
Papers, 1862-1864; .13 linear ft. (4 folders)
McMurtrey (1837-1901) was a Confederate soldier from Fulton County, Ga., with Company B, 9th Battalion of the Georgia Artillery. The collection consists of letters from McMurtrey to his wife, Lucinda.
Note: Letters of J.A. McMurtrey also available as typed copies published under the title Letters to Lucinda, 1862-1864, comp. Mary Frances Honea Johnston, 1985 (E559 .M38 1985).
MENABONI, ATHOS (MSS 665)
Collection, 1940-1990; 1.25 linear ft. (2 boxes, 5 oversized papers)
Menaboni (1895-1990) was an ornithological painter. He was based in Atlanta and did decorative painting at the Swan House, murals for banks and clubs, dinner plates, and book and magazine illustrations. Probably his most famous commission was creating the bird prints for Robert W. Woodruff's Christmas cards from 1941 to 1984, The collection consists predominantly of clippings and articles about Menaboni and some illustrations.
METHODIST LEADERS (MSS 41)
Papers, 1782-1941; .5 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 reel microfilm)
This is an artificial collection of papers of Methodist officials. Some materials relate to Atlanta.
METHODIST MISCELLANY (MSS 329)
Collection, 1782- ; .75 linear ft. (3 boxes, 21 bound volumes, 1 oversized paper)
This is an artificial collection of papers relating to Methodism, including: correspondence, licenses to preach, ordination certificates, diaries, sermon notebooks, minutes, music, and photographsrelating to various aspects of Methodism. A number of these papers were created in Atlanta.
METROPOLITAN ATLANTA BOYS' CLUBS, INC. (MSS 544)
Records, 1938-1990; 7.75 linear ft. (16 boxes, 4 oversized bound volumes)
The Metropolitan Atlanta Boys' Clubs, Inc. is affiliated with Boys' Clubs of America, an organization offering guidance and recreational opportunities to city youths. Records include annual reports, minutes, audit reports, clippings, and speeches. In addition to the organizational files are materials relating to the Poetry and Writing programs.
METROPOLITAN OPERA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) (MSS 577)
Collection; 6.5 linear ft. (13 boxes)
This collection consists primarily of programs, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the Metropolitan Opera's tour season in Atlanta. Also included are materials of general opera interest such as librettos, handbills, posters, clippings, and memorabilia.
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS (MSS 358)
Papers; 16 boxes, 20 oversized papers, 3 bound volumes, 1 oversized bound volume
The collection includes items not particularly related to any individual or institution represented elsewhere in MARBL. Includes autograph letters of prominent persons, letters and notes, documents (appointments, slave bills, land grants, pardons), account books, Christmas cards, literary manuscripts, memorabilia, clippings, scrapbooks, and other materials. Some of these papers relate to Atlanta or Atlantans.
MITCHELL, MARGARET (MSS 265)
Collection, 1920-1991; 3.75 linear ft. (9 boxes, 6 oversized papers, 2 oral histories)
Mitchell (1900-1949) was an Atlanta journalist and author of Gone With the Wind. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, reviews, newspaper clippings, magazine articles and Gone With the Wind memorabilia. Also includes an audiocassette interview by Paul Shields of Ralph McGill about Mitchell.
Restrictions: Requests to publish original Mitchell material should be directed to GWTW Literary Rights, as noted in collection description.
MONTGOMERY, VINCENT (MSS 355)
Papers, 1785-1903; 2 reels microfilm
Montgomery (1876-1903) was a farmer, merchant, and lawyer of Taylor and Hancock Counties, Ga. He served in the Georgia legislature in 1889. The collection contains correspondence, business, and legal papers of the Montgomery family. The papers concern politics, the Masonic organization, church and educational affairs, patent medicines and health appliances. Also included are a number of Civil War letters, several of which were written from in and around Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign, 1864. Among the prominent correspondents is Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, requesting aid in passing the "Marietta-North Georgia extension bill."
MOODY, MINNIE HITE (MSS 481)
Papers, 1914-1970; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
The papers of this Atlanta novelist and journalist (1900-1993) include correspondence, manuscripts of Moody's short stories, poems, and articles. Also includes reviews, clippings, and memorabilia.
MORAN, CHARLOTTE (MSS 617)
Papers, 1962-1976; 9 linear ft. (9 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Moran (1923-1977) was a political activist in Atlanta and DeKalb County. She was involved with the League of Women Voters, Democratic Women of DeKalb, the American Civil Liberties Union and the DeKalb County School Board. Her papers include correspondence, reports, printed materials and subject files.
MUSE’S DEPARTMENT STORE (MSS 881)
Records; 2 linear ft. (2 boxes)
The collection contains the records of Muse’s Department Store from the late 1800s to the 1940s. Muse’s Department Store was founded by George Muse in Atlanta. The records include financial ledgers, financial reports, correspondence, and legal papers.
MYRICK, SUSAN (MSS 542)
Papers, 1913-1978; 1.75 linear ft. (4 boxes, 10 oversized papers, 4 oversized bound volumes)
Myrick (1893-1978), a journalist with the Macon Telegraph, served as a technical advisor for filiming of Gone With the Wind. The papers include correspondence, writings, clippings, printed material, photographs and scrapbooks relating mainly to Myrick's work on Gone With the Wind.
NEFF, LAWRENCE W. (MSS 495)
Papers, [1897-1970]; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Neff (1879-1970) was a Methodist minister, journalist, lawyer, publisher of Emory's Banner Press, 1919-1960, and of the Bozart Press in Atlanta. The collection includes manuscripts of poetry and sermons, notes, letters, and articles. Includes materials relating to the Banner Press.
NEIGHBOR’S NETWORK (ATLANTA, GA.) (MSS 1009)
Records, [ca. 1989-2000]; 12 linear ft. (12 boxes)
The Neighbor’s Network was an Atlanta,Georgia, Community Group that monitored local hate group activity from the 1980s to the 1990s. The collection contains the records of the Neighbor’s Network of Atlanta, Georgia, from ca. 1980-2000 and includes organizational records, monitoring reports on hate group activities, photographs of hate group activities, and collected publications.
NEW SOUTH MISCELLANY (MSS 49)
Papers, 1877- ; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
This artificial collection contains a few items relating to Atlanta, including an 1865 letter proposing cotton planting in the Atlanta area and papers and clippings about the Ku Klux Klan and its founding.
NEWMAN, FRANCES (MSS 654)
Papers, 1924-1954; 3 linear ft. (5 boxes)
Newman (d. 1928) was a novelist, translator, and librarian. Her local library affiliations include the Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 1913-1923, and Georgia Tech, 1924-1926. The collection includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, biographies, articles, a diary and notebooks, books, photocopies, and several dissertations about Newman.
Restrictions: Copyrighted unpublished novel, The Gold-Fish Bowl, may not be reproduced in full nor in any major portion thereof.
NEWSWEEK, INC. ATLANTA BUREAU (MSS 629)
Records, 1954-1979; 19 linear ft. (19 boxes)
During the period covered in this collection the Atlanta bureau covered civil rights issues, Southern politics and Southern perspectives on national politics. Among the Atlanta figures covered are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lester Maddox. Local topics include crime in Atlanta and Atlanta history. The collection consists of subject files containing cables and other dispatches by Newsweek reporters.
O’CONNOR, FLANNERY (MSS 59)
Papers, 1937-1964; .5 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964), born in Savannah, Georgia, was a novelist and short story writer. The collection includes letters (ca. 1937) relating to a childhood trip to Atlanta.
OLIVER, CHARLES JAMES (MSS 444)
Papers, 1832-1868; 1 reel microfilm
Oliver (1831-1914) was a Confederate soldier, Methodist minister, and an Atlanta home decorator. He worked for the Inmans and other prominent Atlanta citizens and is reputed to have painted the inside of the state Capitol building. The collection includes "Log of a Voyage to America," kept by Oliver's father during the family's emigration from England to the U.S. in 1832; a Civil War journal kept by Oliver, 1863-1864; and Oliver's post-war diary, 1866-1868, which is devoted to his life as a Methodist minister in Savannah and Atlanta.
Restrictions: No reproduction of or access to family materials in series 5.
ORR FAMILY (MSS 268)
Papers, 1825-1970; 5 linear ft. (14 boxes, 3 oversized papers, 1 bound volume)
This collection includes the papers of the family of Gustavus John Orr (1819-1887), Georgia educator, State School Commissioner, 1872-1887. It includes correspondence concerning family and business matters and materials relating to a biography of Gustavus J. Orr by his daughter, Dorothy Orr (Martha R. "Dolly" Orr, b. 1887). The collectionalso contains Dorothy Orr's papers; she was an educator and author who became supervising principal in the Atlanta schools, and Atlanta's Woman of the Year for 1949.
PALMER, CHARLES F. (CHARLES FORREST) (MSS 9)
Papers, 1903-1973; 87.75 linear ft. (176 boxes, 9 oversized papers, 15 oversized bound volumes)
Palmer (1892-[1975]) was an Atlanta realtor, businessman, author, and public housing authority. He designed Atlanta's Techwood Homes, one of the first efforts at slum clearance in the United States by the Public Works Administration, and assisted in the development of its companion project for African-Americans, University Homes. He also served as vice-president of the the Atlanta Historical Society, as a member of the Housing Resources Executive Committee for the Atlanta Housing Authority, and as an organizer and member of the Georgia World Congress Ad Hoc Committee. The collection includes correspondence, reports, manuscripts, speeches, and diaries. Also includes photographs of public housing and urban redevelopment projects in the United States (especially those in Atlanta), Europe, and the Third World from 1934 to 1952. A significant amount of material about Atlanta is included.
PARK, LEMUEL MADISON (MSS 630)
Papers, 1888-1915; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes, 5 oversized bound volumes, 5 oversized papers)
Lemuel Park (1846-1916) was a Civil War veteran, a charter member of the Emory College Board of Trustees, and president of Commercial Union Insurance Company in Atlanta. In 1914 he ran unsuccessfully for Georgia state treasurer. Robert Park (1843-1904), whose papers are also in the collection, was an 1860 graduate of Emory College and from 1900-1904 was Georgia state treasurer. The papers consist mainly of the Parks' correspondence and business records.
PARSONS, SARA MITCHELL (MSS 946)
Papers, 1933-2002; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 oversized bound volume)
Sara Mitchell Parsons, social activist, served as president of the League of Women Voters of Atlanta from 1958-1963 and published her memoir From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights in 2000.
The collection consists of the papers of Sara Mitchell Parson from 1933-2002. The papers include correspondence, photographs, printed material, a scrapbook, and writings by Parsons. Notable in the correspondence are letters from the King family, including Martin Luther King, Jr. The printed material, mostly newspaper clippings documents education, segregation, and the Civil Rights movement among others. The scrapbook relates to her 1961 campaign for election to the Atlanta Board of Education.
PASCHALL ELIZA K. (MSS 532)
Papers, 1932-1988; 51 linear ft. (76 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
Paschall (1917-1990) was an Atlanta civic worker who was active in a variety of interracial organizations and women’s groups; including the Greater Atlanta Council on Human Relations. The collection includes files from the GACHR from August 1961-January 1967 which contain correspondence, minutes, inter-office memoranda, reports, press releases and clippings; materials relating to Atlanta public schools, Atlanta city government, Atlanta School of Business, League of Women Voters, Metropolitan Atlanta Summit Leadership Congress, Southern Regional Council, the Commission on the Status of Women, and other Atlanta-related groups and agencies. The collection also contains some personal papers including correspondence, biographical materials, clippings, writing, and material relating to her book about civil rights struggles in Atlanta, It Must Have Rained.
PAULEY, FRANCES F. (FRANCES EMMA FREEBORN) (MSS 659)
Papers, 1919-1992; 52.5 linear ft. (100 boxes, 11 oversized papers, 3 oversized bound volumes)
Pauley (1905-2003) was an activist for civil rights and social causes. Among the organizations in which she participated are the Georgia Advisory Council on Civil Rights, Georgia Council on Human Relations, Georgia Poverty Rights Organization, League of Women Voters, and the Southern Regional Council. The collection includes correspondence, reports, clippings, printed material and collected data which document Pauley's work with civil rights and social welfare issues.
Restrictions: Access restrictions on items in series 11.
PAULEY, WILLIAM CROOKS (MSS 660)
Papers, 1905-1973; 8 linear ft. (16 boxes, 6 oversized papers, 2 bound volumes, 2 oversized bound volumes)
Pauley (1893-1985) was the husband of Frances Freeborn Pauley and a landscape architect whose local work included Hurt and Pittman Parks, the Methodist Children's Home, Grady Homes, Agnes Scott College and St. Phillips Cathedral. His civic involvements included the Druid Hills Civic Association and Fernbank Forest. The collection includes correspondence, reports, photographs, landscape plans, printed materials, clippings, a scrapbook and notes.
PENDERGRAST, NAN (MSS 730)
Papers, 1935-1993; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Pendergrast (1920- ) is a native Atlantan who was a freelance journalist and civic worker. She has had articles published in the Atlanta Constitution, the Atlanta Journal, and the Christian Science Monitor amongst others. She also worked for Planned Parenthood Atlanta, Georgia Council on Human Relations, and Atlantans for Peace, amongst others. Her correspondents include such prominent figures as Ralph McGill and Robert W. Woodruff. The collection consists of correspondence, mainly with prominent political and media figures, and photocopies of Mrs. Pendergrast's scrapbooks, which contain clippings and articles on or about Mrs. Pendergrast.
PERKERSON, MEDORA FIELD (MSS 458)
Papers, 1905-1966; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 7 oversized bound volumes)
Perkerson (1892-1960) was an assistant editor of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine, the author of Blood on Her Shoe, and Who Killed Aunt Maggie? Perkerson was elected Atlanta's Woman of the Year in Arts in 1952. The collection includes correspondence, photographs, clippings of articles and stories, and six scrapbooks. Also included is the manuscript of her book White Columns in Georgia.
POMERANTZ, GARY M. (MSS 890)
Papers; 8.25 linear ft. (11 boxes)
The collection consists of the papers of Gary M. Pomerantz, author and journalist, relating to the publication of his book, Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, a chronicle of the lives of the Dobbs and Allen families of Atlanta. The papers include research files and audio tapes and transcripts of interviews.
POWELL, ARTHUR G. (ARTHUR GRAY) (MSS 530)
Papers, 1933-1951; 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Powell (1873-1951) was a lawyer, judge, and author who lived in Atlanta from 1906-1951. He served as a judge for the Georgia Court of Appeals (1907-1912), and was a member of the Atlanta law firm Little, Powell, Reid, and Goldstein (later called Powell, Goldstein, Frazier, and Murphey). The collection consists of correspondence, notes, clippings and articles, manuscripts, and photographs. Most of the collection contains materials relating to his autobiography I Can Go Home Again.
POWELL, SADYE HARRIS (MSS 1041)
Family papers, 1910-1991; 2 linear ft. (3 boxes, 3 oversized bound volumes, and 7 oversized papers)
Powell (1889-1964) was an African American nurse from Atlanta, Georgia. She and her husband Charles W. Powell found the William A. Harris Memorial Hospital in 1928, the first and one of the only privately available hospital facilities for African Americans in Atlanta.
The papers include photographs of family members, incorporation papers for the William A. Harris Memorial Hospital, a scrapbook documenting the Atlanta Baptist College football championship team in 1910, a photo album with images of Atlanta and Cuba, and a scrapbook kept by an African American member of the United States Maritime Serves with images of Europe and soldiers during World War II. There is also some printed material from Atlanta churches, colleges, and African American organizations and family correspondence.
PRATER, WILLIAM HORACE (MSS 706)
Papers, 1937-1945; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Prater was a soldier during World War II. His letters home to Atlanta chronicle his experiences from boot camp, through service in France and Germany, until his release. Also included are some printed materials including an army songbook. Scattered issues of The Exposition, the bi-weekly newspaper of the Atlanta-based Exposition Cotton Co. (1937-1940), make up the rest of the collection.
Restrictions: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
RAFSHOON, CHARLES M. (MSS 631)
Photograph Collection, 1960-1980; 6.25 linear ft. (12 boxes, 3 oversized papers)
Charles Rafshoon is a photographer in the Atlanta area. His photographs include images of Atlanta arts groups, political figures such as Jimmy Carter and Andrew Young, and other Atlanta scenes and events.
Restrictions: Permission of photographer required for commercial use of photographs.
RAINEY, GLENN W. (GLENN WEDDINGTON) (MSS 471)
Papers, 1917-1974; 10 linear ft. (20 boxes, 9 bound volumes, 1 oversized paper)
Rainey (1907-1989), an alumnus of Emory University, was a professor of English at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta from 1932 until 1974. Rainey was involved in many political, social, civic and professional organizations, including the Georgia Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Committee for Georgia of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, and the Southern Regional Council. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts of Rainey's published and unpublished work, and subject files which include information on a number of Atlanta organizations and institutions.
RAOUL FAMILY (MSS 548)
Papers, 1865-1982; 23.25 linear ft. (47 boxes, 11 oversized papers, 1 oversized bound volume)
William Greene Raoul, a railroad president, and his wife, Mary Wadley Raoul, had 10 children and settled in Atlanta in 1892. They participated in numerous social and charitable organizations. They were a large, active family whose interests ranged from woman suffrage to politics to socialism. The collection contains letters, journals, writings, photographs, financial and legal records, clippings, printed materials and memorabilia. Also includes papers of Eleonore Raoul, suffrage leader and civic worker.
Restrictions: Access to oversized paper 2a is restricted for preservation purposes.
RAOUL, WILLIAM GREENE (MSS 162)
Papers, 1869-1897; .5 linear ft. (1 box, 10 bound volumes)
Raoul (1843-1913) was president of the Central Railroad of Georgia (1882-1887) and of the Mexican National Railroad Company (1887-1904). The collection consists of seven letterbooks containing copies of business letters written by Raoul, 1878-1897; three scrapbooks containing newsclippings mainly relating to railroad affairs; and a group of loose correspondence, clippings, and documents.
REEVES, OLIVER FRANKLIN (MSS 467)
Papers, 1936-1961; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Reeves (1889-1963) was the poet laureate of Atlanta and Georgia (1944-1963). The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts (prose and poetry), published works, speeches, articles, clippings, and other material relating to his life and work.
RICH, RICHARD H. (MSS 575)
Papers, 1902-1981; 42.5 linear ft. (83 boxes, 9 oversized bound volumes, 7 oversized papers)
Rich (1901-1975), an Atlanta business and civic leader, was the grandson of the founder of Rich's Department Store. Rich worked for the company from 1924 until his death in 1975, and served as chairman of the Board from 1961 until 1972. Rich also actively participated in various Atlanta civic and charitable organizations and business associations. The papers contain general correspondence, subject files, materials created by and about Rich's Inc., family financial and legal papers, writings and printed materials, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and miscellany. These materials relate not only to Rich's business, but also to his active interest in the development of Atlanta.
Restrictions: Access to series 4 is restricted.
RICHARDS, SAMUEL P. (MSS 518)
Diaries, 1848-1909; 3 reels microfilm
Richards (1824-1910) was an Atlanta stationer and book dealer. The collection consists of Richards' manuscript diaries chronicling daily events in Atlanta between 1848 and 1909. Richards also discusses the fall of Atlanta in 1864, his evacuation to New York, and his return to Atlanta at the end of the war.
Note: Originals are located at the Atlanta History Center.
RICHARDSON, ELEANOR L. (MSS 623)
Papers, 1967-1990; 29 linear ft. (29 boxes, 3 oversized papers)
Richardson (1913- ) was a member of the Georgia General Assembly from 1976-1990. Her primary areas of interest were infant mortality, women's issues, and the poor and the elderly. The papers include correspondence, reports, lists, notes, press releases, campaign materials, posters, maps, memorabilia and subject files.
RIDENOUR, MABEL LOEB (MSS 560)
Papers, 1920-1968; 2.5 linear ft. (5 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Ridenour (1888-1979), one of the first women in the advertising field in Atlanta, owned Loeb's Advertising Company, founded the Atlanta Advertising Club, and worked as a recipe columnist for the Atlanta Constitution. The collection contains correspondence, family and estate papers, business and legal papers, photographs, writings, clippings, and other materials relating to her career and travels.
ROGERS, ERNEST (MSS 328)
Papers, 1918-1967; 10 linear ft. (20 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Rogers (1897-1967), an Emory alumnus and founder of the Emory Wheel, was a feature writer for the Atlanta Journal, ca. 1920-1967. The collection consists of correspondence, biographical materials, writings, notes, scrapbooks, a diary from 1918-1919, Atlanta Journal columns from 1945-1967, photographs, and memorabilia. Also included are the manuscript and galley proofs for Roger's book Peachtree Parade.
ROTHSCHILD, JACOB M. (MSS 637)
Papers, 1933-1985; 13.25 linear ft. (27 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
Rothschild (1911-1973) was the rabbi of The Temple, Atlanta's leading Reform Judaism congregation, from 1947 to 1973. During this period, he was active in the civil rights movement and school desegregation. Correspondents of local note include Ralph Abernathy, Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Ralph McGill. The collection includes correspondence, sermons, speeches and articles, clippings, printed and audiovisual materials, and memorabilia. There are also some materials relating to the 1958 bombing of The Temple.
Restriction: Reproduction cannot be made of address given at dinner honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., January 1965, in box 25:folder 10.
ROWSEY, FRANK (MSS 223)
Papers, 1925-1960; .13 linear ft (1 box)
Rowsey (1905-1961), an Emory alumnus, was a Coca-Cola Company executive, editor of the Coca-Cola Bottler, and a staff member of the Atlanta Journal. The collection consists of letters Rowsey received during the fall of 1937 while he was compiling a special newspaper book section. Sixty-seven authors (nearly all Southern) are represented. The collection includes a copy of the Emory Phoenix from May 1925 for which Rowsey was editor-in-chief.
RUBIN, LARRY JEROME (MSS 442)
Papers, 1962-1989; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
The papers of this poet (1930-) , professor of English at Georgia Institute of Technology, and alumnus of Emory University contain correspondence, poetry, a typescript for The World's Old Way, galley proofs for Lanced in Light, newspaper clippings, and other materials.
SANTECROCE, MARY NELL (MSS 835)
Collection, [ca. 1935-1999]; .5 linear ft. (1 box, 1 oversized bound volume)
Mary Nell Santecroce (1917?-1999) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, where she lived for most of her life, pursuing a career in teaching and in acting. The collection consists of collected material relating primarily to Santacroce’s career as an actress in Atlanta from ca. 1935-1999 and includes printed material, one scrapbook, slides, and photographs.
SCHWARTZ, PHYLLIS (MSS 738)
PRESIDENTIAL PARKWAY OPPOSITION FILES, 1980-1992; 21 linear ft. (21 boxes)
This collection consists of materials related to the fight against the Presidential Parkway, waged by the Druid Hills Civic Association and CAUTION, Inc. of Atlanta. Included are legal documents, correspondence, reports, clippings, printed materials, topographical maps, drawings and charts.
SCRUGGS, ANDERSON M. (ANDERSON MCLAREN) (MSS 492)
Papers, 1926-1959; 5.5 linear ft. (11 boxes)
Scruggs (1987-1955) was a poet, author, and professor at the Atlanta-Southern Dental College (later School of Dentistry, Emory University) form 1926 to 1955. The collection includes general correspondence, 1926-1959, correspondence relating to Scruggs' literary works, galley proofs, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, pamphlets, clippings, books, and memorabilia relating to Scruggs' literary and professional work.
SEYDELL, MILDRED (MSS 449)
Papers, 1842-1987; 65.25 linear ft. (150 boxes, 48 oversized papers, 2 medals)
Seydell (1889-1988) , a journalist, author, and lecturer from Atlanta, worked for the Atlanta Georgian from 1924 to 1939. She also lived and worked in New Jersey and West Virginia, 1910-1923, and in Belgium, 1947-1967. She published several books, edited her own magazine, and participated in many women's organizations. The collection contains correspondence, both personal and professional writings, personal and family records, memorabilia, photographs, and source material used for her writings. Correspondents include Margaret Mitchell and Robert Woodruff as well as the readers of her column in the Atlanta Georgian. The collection also includes correspondence and printed matter documenting Seydell's activities with the Atlanta branches of the National Woman's Party, the Federation of Women's Clubs and other Atlanta organizations.
Restrictions: Access restricted for certain materials, as noted in collection description.
SIBLEY, CELESTINE (MSS 762)
Papers, 1900-1997, 36 boxes, 7 oversized papers, 2 bound volumes
Sibley (1917-1999) was a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and mystery writer. Materials in this collection relate to her career as a mystery writer, and include galley and master proofs for Dire Happenings at Scratch Ankle; a corrected typescript for Straight as an Arrow; and proofs of Touch of the Shepherd: Reflections on the Life of Vernon S. Broyles, Jr. Collection also includes a scrapbook with clippings; printed materials by Sibley on her writing; and correspondence (ca. 1992-1994).
SIBLEY, JOHN A. (MSS 437)
Papers, 1920-1989; 154.25 linear ft. (463 boxes, 2 oversized bound volumes)
Sibley (1888-1986) was a prominent Atlanta lawyer, banker, and civic leader. He was a partner in the Atlanta law firm of King and Spalding, general counsel to Coca-Cola, president of Trust Company Bank, head of Atlanta's first United Way appeal, and chairman of the Sibley School Commission which ended segregation in the Atlanta schools. The collection includes Sibley's personal and professional files, including correspondence, speeches, legal and financial records, photos, and printed items documenting his work with the Trust Company of Georgia, Coca-Cola, Callaway Gardens, Egleston Hospital, Emory University, and the Sibley Commission. The collection also contains material about other Sibley family members and friends.
Restrictions: Access to certain files relating to Coca-Cola and the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Foundation is restricted (series 1: subject files).
SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL (MSS 934)
“WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN?”
Program files and sound recordings, 1957-1997; 21 linear ft. (55 boxes)
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: An Audio History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Communities and the Music of Those Times” is an award-winning radio documentary aired on Public Radio International affiliates across the country in 1997. Produced by the Southern Regional Council (SRC), it chronicles the struggle to end segregation in Atlanta, Georgia, Columbia, South Carolina, Jackson, Mississippi, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Montgomery, Alabama.
The program files consist of interview transcripts, audiovisual materials, scripts, and production files for each city as well as program research files containing archival source material for each city.
STANTON, FRANK LEBBY (MSS 166)
Papers, ca. 1885-1978; 1.5 linear ft. (6 boxes, 7 oversized papers, 1 oversized bound volume)
Stanton (1857-1927) was a poet and journalist who wrote columns for the Atlanta Constitution. The collection contains correspondence, handwritten and printed poems, scrapbooks, music and broadsides, photographs, cartoons and drawings, clippings and printed materials, biographical notes and short stories.
STEPHENS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (MSS 94)
Collection, 1821-1899; 8.75 linear ft. (18 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 12 reels microfilm)
Stephens (1812-1883) was a statesman, lawyer, and politician from Crawfordsville, Ga. He served as the vice president of the Confederate States of America, (1861-1865), as U.S. Representative from Georgia (1843-1859, 1872-1882), and as the governor of Georgia (1882-1883). He was also the part owner and political editor of the Atlanta newspaper The Southern Sun. The collection contains political and personal correspondence, legal and financial papers, a diary kept by Stephens while a prisoner at Fort Warren (1865), printed speeches and manuscripts, and newsclippings. A number of papers relate to Atlanta. Also included are business papers and correspondence, 1866-1893, of Stephens' nephew, John Alexander Stephens, an Atlanta lawyer and adjunct general of Georgia, 1883-1886.
Note: Related collections located at Duke University, Harvard University, Library of Congress, and Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. Portions of the Stephens, Robert Toombs and Howell Cobb letters published as The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb, ed. U. B. Phillips. Pre-1860 correspondence and legal papers also available on microfilm. Certain correspondence between Alexander Stephens, his brother Linton Stephens, and others (1834-1872, 3053 letters) available on microfilm only. Certain correspondence between Alexander Stephens and other family members available on microfilm only.
Restrictions: Researchers are required to use microfilm copies of papers where available due to preservation concerns. (Correspondence 1826 -1859; Legal papers 1821-1859; microfilm acquired from Manhattanville College and Duke University).
STEVENS, RICHARD L. (MSS 520)
Collection, 1964-1969; 14 linear ft. (28 boxes)
Stevens participated in the peace and student movements of the 1960s while he attended Georgia Tech. He served as the project director of the Southern Student Human Relations Project, U.S. National Student Association. The collection consists of pamphlets, clippings, news bulletins, periodicals, handbills, and speeches documenting peace protests, the student movement, the struggle for civil rights, and the war on poverty.
STONE MOUNTAIN (MSS 95)
Collection, 1915-1977; 7.5 linear ft. (27 boxes, 20 oversized papers, 5 bound volumes, 3 oversized bound volumes)
The materials in this collection center around the carving of the Confederate memorial on the face of Stone Mountain. The bulk of the collection consists of the records and papers of the Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association, 1915-1930. These records include correspondence, financial records, audits, legal and insurance papers, minutes, reports, printed materials, photographs, blueprints, plans, and memorabilia. The collection also contains papers of Gutzon Borglum (the original sculptor of the memorial) and relates to the carving and the controversy surrounding his dismissal. Other materials relate to the Venable family, owners of Stone Mountain, and concern attempts to have the monument completed and Borglum reinstated as sculptor. There are also papers of C. Helen Plane, president of the Atlanta Branch of United Daughters of the Confederacy (who proposed the erection of the memorial) which document the early years of the project. Also contains other printed materials, including some Atlanta-area newspapers.
STYLES, CAREY WENTWORTH (MSS 231)
Papers, 1860-1945; .5 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Styles (1825-1897) founded the Atlanta Constitution. The collection includes correspondence, newspapers, and miscellaneous items associated with Styles' career as well as some personal and family material.
SULLIVAN, PATRICIA . (MSS 621)
Progressive Party Oral History Interviews, 1978-1982; 2.25 linear ft. (6 boxes)
Patricia Sullivan was a history graduate student at the time this collection was compiled. The collection consists of 32 interviews conducted by Sullivan with individuals involved in the 1948 Progressive Party. Interviewees connected with Atlanta include Floyd Hunter, Glenn Rainey and James Dombrowski. The collection consists of audiotapes and some interview transcripts.
SUTTON, WILLIS A. (MSS 713)
Scrapbooks, 1924-1943; 15 oversized bound volumes
Sutton (1879- ) was superintendent of the Atlanta public schools (1921-1943). The collection contains 19 scrapbooks (1924-1943), which consist of clippings documenting Sutton's career.
SWANTON FAMILY (MSS 430)
Papers, 1801-1957; 1 reel microfilm
Papers of this Decatur, Ga., family consist chiefly of family correspondence, an historical sketch of the Swanton House, and a scrapbook (1803-1900) containing correspondence, clippings, photographs, business papers, and memorabilia. Most of the letters are addressed to Joseph F. Woodbury, owner of a drugstore in Atlanta, whose daughter married the son of Benjamin Franklin Swanton, owner and operator of a gin-grist mill, machine shop, tanyard, and brick kiln in Decatur.
TALLEY, MADISON (MSS 66)
Papers, 1812-1928; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Talley was a prosperous farmer in Virginia. He was related to the Thomas Bolling Jay family of Atlanta. The collection includes a small amount of materials (6 items, ca. 1903-1928), containing clippings and personal correspondence from members of this family.
Note: Originals at the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio, 1962
THIOT FAMILY (MSS 297)
Papers, 1756-1865; .75 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 2 reels microfilm)
The Thiots owned a plantation near Savannah, Ga. and some property in DeKalb County. The collection includes letters and documents relating to Charles Henry Thiot's emigration from France in the late 18th century, first to Jamaica, then to Georgia in 1795; letters, business and legal papers, relating to the family's plantation; and a group of Civil War letters written by Charles Henry Thiot, III to his wife Anna. There are also several earlier letters (1849) from Charles to Anna written from Dekalb County.
Restrictions: Microfilm of Charles Henry Thiot’s Civil War letters and the French and Spanish papers, 1777-1805 must be used.
THOMPSON, MAURICE (MSS 339)
Papers, 1865-1940; 4.25 linear ft. (17 boxes, 3 bound volumes, 1 oversized paper)
Thompson (1844-1901) was a novelist and poet of Crawfordsville, Indiana, who spent some time in North Georgia during his youth. The collection contains correspondence, literary manuscripts, essays, articles, drawings, photographs, scrapbooks, and clippings. It also includes some papers of Thompson's daughter, Jessie Thompson Ballad, a resident of Atlanta and writer for the Atlanta Journal Magazine. Her papers contain correspondence, clippings, literary manuscripts and her journal for 1889.
THOMSON, ALBERT DANNER (MSS 716)
Papers, 1883-1919; 1.5 linear ft. (4 boxes, 1 oversized bound volume, 1 oversized paper)
Thomson (1877-1953), Atlanta businessman and graduate of Emory College, was involved in real estate and building through his association with the firm Renfoe and Thomson. He also served as an Atlanta City Councilman (pre-World War I) and as the Executive Secretary to Mayor Asa Griggs Candler (1917-1918). The collection includes materials relating to his service as Executive Secretary to Mayor Asa Candler.
THOMSON, WILLIAM SYDNOR (MSS 96)
Papers, 1858-1889; 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
Thomson (1843-1913), an Atlanta attorney, served at one time as county attorney of Fulton County, helped to organize the Atlanta Bar Association, served on the Atlanta Board of Education (1888-1897), and was elected to the City Council in 1897. The collection contains correspondence between Thomson and his friends and family, journals (1873-1876), and account books (1865-1871, 1877-1880, 1886-1889).
TILLY, DOROTHY ROGERS (MSS 539)
Papers, 1868-1970; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes, 1 oversized paper, 10 framed items, 4 bound volumes)
Tilly (1883-1970) spent much of her life fighting for civil rights through Methodist church groups and civic organizations in Atlanta and throughout the South. She was active in the Atlanta Urban League, the director of women's work for the Southern Regional Council, and a member of President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, biographical information, and memorabilia. It also contains copies of records of the Committee on Civil Rights as well as scrapbook and record books for the Women's Missionary society of the Methodist Church.
TIMMIE, WILLIAM PATTERSON (MSS 555)
Papers, 1950-1970; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Timmie served as manager of the Capital City Club in Atlanta for more than fifty years. The collection consists of two scrapbooks containing photographs and other mementoes of the Capital City Club's celebrations in 1950 and 1960, and of Timmie's association with the club. Also includes a small group of newspaper clippings about Timmie.
TRAMMELL, LEANDER NEWTON (MSS 236)
Papers, 1866-1900; .13 linear ft. (1 box)
Trammell (1830-1900) served as a Georgia state legislator and senator and as the chairman of the state Railroad Commission from 1890 until 1900. The collection contains correspondence which includes letters from prominent Atlanta politicians.
TROCHECK, KATHY HOGAN (MSS 772)
Papers; 6 linear ft. (6 boxes, 2 oversized papers)
Trocheck (1954-) is a resident of Atlanta and a published mystery writer. The materials in this collection are related to the four novels she had published as of 1995. They include typescript and holograph drafts, correspondence, copies of the books, dust jackets, and publicity posters. Also includes typescripts of two short stories, interviews and articles by, and on, Trocheck.
Restrictions: Entire collection closed.
TRUST COMPANY OF GEORGIA (MSS 294)
Collection, 1779-1797; .25 linear ft. (1 box, 1 oversized paper)
This collection, which was donated by Trust Company, contains early Georgia documents and letters as well as blueprints and drawings for the Equitable (Trust Company of Georgia) Building, designed by Burnham and Root of Chicago in 1891, completed in 1892.
Uhry, Alfred (MSS 833)
Collection, n.d.; 10 linear ft. (10 boxes)
Playwright Alfred Uhry was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. The collection holds notebooks, drafts of scripts and television screenplays, including Driving Miss Daisy, Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Parade. Additionally, there are photographs, printed material, and a videotape of the documentary, “Southern Roots, Southern Stories: Alfred Uhry.”
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. GEORGIA DIVISION. ALFRED HOLT COLQUITT CHAPTER (MSS 394)
Records ca. 1833-1962; Atlanta chapter of the U.D.C.; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
A group of miscellaneous materials relating to the Confederacy, including typescripts of letters, diaries, and documents, as well as pamphlets and leaflets concerning Southern landmarks and tourist attractions.
VILLAGE WRITERS GROUP (MSS 657)
Records, 1979- ; 2 linear ft. (4 boxes, 3 oversized bound volumes, 1 oversized paper)
The Village Writers Group, an informal extension of an Emory University adult education class, began in 1978 and was incorporated in 1980. Members have included such writers as Erskine Caldwell, Pat Conroy, William Diehl, Anne Rivers Siddons and Stuart Woods. The collection includes publications, scrapbooks, proclamations and photographs.
WSB (RADIO STATION: ATLANTA, GA) (MSS 663)
Collection, 1955-1980; 189 linear ft. (189 boxes, 1 oversized paper)
Licensed in 1922, WSB was the first radio station in the South. Originally owned by the Atlanta Journal, WSB was bought by Governor James M. Cox of Ohio in 1939, and today remains a part of Cox Broadcasting, continuing a tradition of community involvement and service. WSB has documented many events important in Atlanta's history during the period from 1955 to 1980. Some of these include: the assassination and funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., the election to the U.S. presidency of Jimmy Carter, and Atlanta Braves baseball player Hank Aaron's 715th homerun.
Restrictions: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
WALLACE, ALEXANDER MCGHEE (MSS 1007)
Letters between Alexander McGhee and Frances Garland Singleton Wallace, 1854-1861; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Alexander McGhee Wallace, an insurance agent, was elected to the Atlanta City Council in 1856 and served as the chairman of the Finance Committee. In 1860 Wallace was instrumental in the founding of the Atlanta Grays, a group pledged to support the right of succession. He married Frances Garland Singleton of Dahlonega in 1855 and they moved to Atlanta.
The collection consists of correspondence written between Alexander McGhee Wallace and his wife Frances Garland Singleton Wallace from 1854 to 1861. The letters largely discuss the courtship between Alexander and Frances and the difficulties of separation as Alexander travels for business through North Georgia and Tennessee. Frances’ letters mostly describe family affairs and local news in Atlanta.
WARREN, JAMES EDWARD (MSS 429)
Papers, 1932-1968; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Warren (1908-), an Atlanta poet, was the head of the English Department at Lovett school. The collection includes 10 notebooks containing manuscript poems, newspaper and magazine clippings, and two privately printed books of his verse.
WATTERS, PAT (MSS 905)
Papers; 2 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Pat Watters (1927-1999) was a journalist at the Atlanta Journal from 1952-1963, director of information at the Southern Regional Council from 1952-1963, and the author of numerous books and articles. The collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Pat Watters and includes correspondence, subject files, awards, book reviews, and a manuscript of his unpublished “Add Obits”.
WEINSTEIN ALFRED ABRAHAM (MSS 564)
Papers, 1940-1976; 2.25 linear ft. (5 boxes, 10 oversized bound volumes, 4 oversized papers, 1 oral history)
The collection of this Atlanta physician and author (1908-1964) contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, articles, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. It includes galley proofs for his book, Barbed-Wire Surgeon, materials relating to his imprisonment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, and tapes and memorabilia documenting his participation in the Atlanta Jewish community.
WILKINS, JOSEPHINE MATHEWSON (MSS 580)
Papers, 1920-1977; 50.5 linear ft. (66 boxes, 3 oversized bound volumes, 4 oversized papers)
Wilkins (1893-1977), an Atlanta civic leader and social reformer, worked with the League of Women Voters of Georgia, the Georgia Children's Code Commission, the Citizens' Fact-Finding Movement of Georgia, and the Southern Regional Council. The collection includes correspondence, subject files, minutes, reports, financial records, press releases, clippings, and photographs documenting her roles in various organizations.
WILLIAMS, SAMUEL COLE (MSS 272)
Papers, 1911-1947; .13 linear ft. (1 box)
Williams (1864-1947), a prominent jurist and historian, was the first dean of Emory's Lamar School of Law, 1920-1925. The papers contain correspondence, literary manuscripts, clippings, obituaries, photographs, and notes, most of which concern Tennessee history and genealogy. The collection includes some biographical information on Williams.
WILMER, CARY B. (MSS 589)
Collection, 1936-1979, 8 linear ft. (12 boxes, 1 oversized papers)
Wilmer (1905-1988) began his career as a reporter in the 1920s and in the 1950s became a professional photographer. He primarily photographed people prominent in Atlanta politics and society, particularly in his capacity as official photographer for the Piedmont Driving Club. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, printed material, photographs and slides.
WINSHIP FAMILY (MSS 305)
Papers, 1637-1967; .13 linear ft. (1 folder)
This collection contains historical and genealogical data on the family of Charles T. Winship, a prominent Atlanta businessman, lawyer, and member of Emory University's Board of Trustees. One branch of the family settled in Atlanta in the 1850s.
WOODRUFF, NELL HODGSON (MSS 47)
Collection, ca. 1918-1970; 3.25 linear ft. (4 boxes)
Nell Woodruff (1892-1968), wife of Robert W. Woodruff and a trained nurse, was an Atlanta civic and humanitarian leader who was particularly interested in health fields. The collection includes some correspondence, clippings, awards, photographs, and other memorabilia documenting Woodruff's nursing career and her interest in nursing. It also contains materials regarding Emory University's Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
WOODRUFF, ROBERT WINSHIP (MSS 10)
Collection; 12 boxes, 10 oversized papers
Papers; ca. 300 boxes, ca. 165 bound volumes, 15 oversized papers
Woodruff (1889-1985), an Atlanta businessman and philanthropist, was the president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coca-Cola Company and was a major benefactor of Emory University. Woodruff also extended his philanthropy to parks, universities, schools, organizations and the arts in Atlanta. The "collection" is an artificial gathering of materials by and from Robert W. Woodruff, his family, friends and associates. The "papers" consist of files, photographs, scrapbooks, photograph albums, and memorabilia bequeathed to Emory University and transferred after Woodruff's death in 1985.
WOODWARD, COMER MCDONALD (MSS 531)
Papers, 1892-1942; 3 linear ft. (6 boxes, 1 bound volume)
Woodward (1874-1960) served as the dean of men at Emory University (1924-1942), and was active in various Atlanta social welfare organizations. The collection includes correspondence, clippings, reports from various agencies, and printed material. Subjects include child welfare in Atlanta and Fulton County, the Atlanta chapter of the American Association of Social Workers (1925-1942), the Atlanta Child’s Home, the Atlanta Community Chest, the Atlanta League of Women Voters (1920-1932), the Atlanta School of Social Work (1931-1945), and the Atlanta Tuberculosis Association (1930-1934). The collection also includes materials regarding Emory.
WOODWARD, EMILY (MSS 424)
Papers, 1918-1966; 5.75 linear ft. (12 boxes)
Woodward (1885-1970), a journalist from Vienna, Ga., served as an editor of the Vienna News, contributed to the Atlanta Journal, directed the Georgia Public Forums (1938-1944), and participated in other communications, civic, cultural and women's organizations. The collection includes correspondence, manuscript articles and addresses, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, biographical and genealogical data and memorabilia. Topics discussed in correspondence include: organizational work, prison reform, education, journalism, Georgia politics, and race relations. The collection also contains materials pertaining to her work with public forums, the Georgia Press Institute, the Georgia Forestry Association, and the Leadership Training Instutute.
WOOLF, WINFIELD P. (MSS 780)
Papers; .25 linear ft. (1 box)
Winfield Pinson Woolf, Sr. was a graduate of Sewanee University who practiced law in Atlanta in the late 1880s-1890s. Woolf then changed careers and became an educator, first at Cox College, a women's school in College Park, Ga., and then at the Atlanta Conservatory of Music. Bobby Jones was a student of his, along with other famous Atlantans. Materials in this collection consist of two bound volumes: a letter book from his law practice, and a record book of the Highland Circle C.L.S.C. (Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle).
WOOTTEN, KATHARINE HINTON (MSS 606)
Papers, 1914-1942; .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Wootten (d. 1946) was a librarian and bibliographer at the Carnegie Library in Atlanta. The collection includes correspondence and clippings which reflect Wooten's interest in Confederate refugees to South and Central America, Joel Chandler Harris, William Sydney Porter, and Elbert Hubbard's A Message to Garcia.
WRIGHT, JAMES MARTIN (MSS 493)
Papers, 1900-1965; 1 linear ft. (2 boxes)
Wright (1879-1965) was a professor of history at John Hopkins, and a professor of economics at Agnes Scott. The collection includes a few letters, invitations and programs. The bulk of material concerns Wright's studies of the Bahama Islands and includes books, articles, notes, and manuscripts. Included is an article by Wright entitled "The Fare Problem of the Atlanta Street Railways" (1930).
Restrictions: Restrictions on access and reproduction may apply.
YWCA OF GREATER ATLANTA (MSS 720)
Records, 1901-1979; 81.5 linear ft. (163 boxes, 16 oversized bound volumes)
The Atlanta YWCA was chartered in 1902 and aimed to provide young working women with a place to live, a chance to acquire new skills, and opportunities for recreation and a wholesome social life. The Phyllis Wheatley branch, established in 1919 to serve black women, is the source of much material in this collection. It includes minute books, administrative and subject files, correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, and other materials.
